Stuff we're thinking about
...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
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
... See moreA degree of relaxation is necessary to have good ideas because one doesn't have them so much as receive them—and one cannot receive anything with clenched fists.
Justin Murphy (cath/acc)x.comMe 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
When you take a hike and you feel a sense of awe at everything that you're seeing, you're experiencing the sublime. In most of life, this sense of “smallness” is experienced as a humiliation. But the sense of smallness in the presence of the sublime has an oddly uplifting effect.
I love the idea of coming face to face with our cosmic insignificance ... See more
I love the idea of coming face to face with our cosmic insignificance ... See more