Sparks 👁️
what do you have “unreasonably”high standards for?
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)
‘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?
“If you want to make people like things, work in advertising. If you want to make things people like, work in design.” - Brian Collins
Soon after I first posted this essay in a blog some 15 years ago, a young man approached me to ask if I minded him reposting it. I asked him where that would be. He and some others had launched a site called ‘Generation’. Its aim was to prepare for the coming war between the generations by assembling useful documents and providing a forum for... See more