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“I don’t remember ever being forced to accept compromises, but I have willingly accepted constraints.”
— Charles Eames
The creative power of constraints
‘The food is wet and crunchy, and tastes of all the cutting-up she just did to it,’ Brown writes: a sentence that stops the reader in their tracks.
Eliane Glaser • The Three-Act ‘Hero’s Journey’ Has Long Been the Most Prominent Kind of Story. What Other Tales Are There to Tell?
Sense-making emerges out of nonsense, to be blunt. We need to accept stages of confusion as potentially enjoyable, playful, resources.
Stephen T Asma • Why we need a new kind of education: Imagination Studies | Aeon Essays
Borrowing from Mark Twain, who borrowed from Josh Billings, the difference between getting this right and getting it almost right is the difference between the lightning bug and lightning.
André Chaperon • The Invisible Conversation (Attention & Value)
In art, the sublime is a feedback loop, evolving with whatever’s next to threaten us | Aeon Videos
aeon.coI’ve come to learn that I never want to sacrifice the aliveness of the present moment in service of a fantasy.