The New Romantics
This obsession with the immediate “unburdening” of a thing you created is common in non-Japanese contexts, but I posit: The Japanese way is the correct way. Be an adult. Own your garbage. Garbage responsibility is something we’ve long since abdicated not only to faceless cans on street corners (or just all over the street, as seems to be the case... See more
Craig Mod • Garbage
The people we traditionally consider to be smartest are those best at some sort of a general math / reasoning ability.
This is not what genius is.
This is not what genius is.
Alexey Guzey • Intelligence killed genius - Alexey Guzey
The only antidote I've found to the madness of my own brain is to talk to other people and be around other people. Somehow, through conversation and through seeing and being seen, I feel less terrible. I wouldn't say I feel great neccessarily, I just feel less bad.
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Myles helped me avoid an easy error:
Putting the tool before the craft.
Putting the tool before the craft.
Nat Eliason • Breaking Up with Productivity Advice Breaking Up with Productivity Advice
“Imagine if you owned the Lakers or the Yankees, and put all the emphasis on the team brand—but kept reducing the pay to actual players.”
Ted Gioia • The Death of the Magazine
I contend that the creator is an individual who manages a most formidable challenge: to wed the most advanced understandings achieved in a domain with the kinds of problems, questions, issues, and sensibilities that most characterized his or her life as a wonder-filled child.
Austin Kleon • Questions without answers
The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.