Stuff we're thinking about

"I call myself a farmer. Wall Street is flooded with hunters-people who try to go out and find the big game.

They fell it and bring it back, and there's a huge feast and everything is fabulous, and then they look for the next big game.

I plant seeds and then I spend all of my time cultivating them.”

—Thomas Russo" (William Green, Richer, Wiser, Happier)

Me is overrated
We is underrated

Planning is overrated
Planting is underrated

Answers are overrated
Questions are underrated

Virality is overrated
Quality is underrated

h/t Blas Moros

“You Need More” Marketing —> “You Are Enough” Marketing

Things are not quite real until they acquire names and can be classified in some way. Curiosity about places is part of a general curiosity about things, part of the need to label experiences so that they have a greater degree of permanence and fit into some conceptual scheme.

-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A special target of examination ought to be how societies differ in making room for pauses in the midst of life, for it is during such pauses that individuals are able to appraise the meaning of what they have undergone.

-Yi-Fu Tuan Life as a Field Trip

Feist, in a Broken Record Interview on reconnecting with your artistic roots:

It was a way to strip myself of all of the rules that I'd come up with that they were like collated invisibly over time.

Like, "Okay , I don't, I shouldn't do that anymore because that didn't work. Okay, so now I have rule number one. Now, I shouldn't play multiple shows i

...I have almost invariably found that the very feeling which has seemed to me most private, most personal, and hence most incomprehensible by others, has turned out to be an expression for which there is a resonance in many other people.

-Carl Rogers On Becoming a Person (1961)

One's ability to articulate an idea always lags behind the understanding of the idea, and the understanding of an idea often lags behind the embodiment in which it is first given life. It can take a surprising amount of time to come to understand what a prototype is trying to "say", and longer still to say it oneself.

-Bret Victor

Reflecting on this email from a Sublime believer:

Consuming media has become a massive time-suck for humankind. Only decades ago, the average person had one source of information, if any — the newspaper. Journalists chronicled happenings relevant to their community. And that was it. Someone got married, someone is selling their house, someone died,