#tenets-to-live-by
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Never waste your midlife crisis - Austin Kleon
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I would like to be paid like a plumber: I do the job and you pay me what it's worth. The record company will expect me to ask for a point or a point and a half. If we assume three million sales, that works out to 400,000 dollars or so. There's no fucking way I would ever take that much money. I wouldn't be able to sleep.
Shaun Usher • I would like to be paid like a plumber
Genuinely charmed by people trying to "out" me regarding stuff that had print runs in the tens of thousands, bands that toured the world, stuff that was already reported on by Pitchfork... whatever. I am not afforded the luxury of secret shame, guys. Knock yourselves out.
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youtube.comThe walking cure: when an injury forced me to slow down, I learned that we can only amble our way to wisdom | Justine Toh
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“Fidelity to daily tasks” is Albert Borgmann’s line, quoted in the same post I linked to a few lines up.
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• About 99% of the time, the right time is right now.
• No one is as impressed with your possessions as you are.
• Dont ever work for someone you dont want to become.
• Cultivate 12 people who love you, because they are worth more than 12 million people who like you.
• Dont keep making the same mistakes; try to make new mistakes.
• If you stop to listen