the start of an idea
starting well, the beginning of a project, that kind of stuff
sari and
the start of an idea
How do you get from starting small to doing something great? By making successive versions. Great things are almost always made in successive versions. You start with something small and evolve it, and the final version is both cleverer and more ambitious than anything you could have planned.
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
" You never change things by fighting the existing reality. T o change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller
Throughlines
PRESENT
present.xxx
This site is very cool. “PRESENT is a magazine about creating and self-reflection where we speak with makers about their path and philosophies. It’s a space for honest conversations about discipline, fear, process and confidence.”
By unfolding I mean “interrogating the conclusion to come up with an explanation of why it could be true.” What premises and reasoning chains leads to this conclusion? The explanation isn’t meant to prove that your conclusion was right. It is just a way of unpacking it.
By unfolding a claim into an explanation, you spread it on a “wider front” (to... See more
By unfolding a claim into an explanation, you spread it on a “wider front” (to... See more
Henrik Karlsson • How to Think in Writing
explanation of unfolding concepts
The gap between knowing what you want and going after it is where fear thrives. You don't need enough courage for the entire journey. You only need courage for the next step.
Start by starting.
It also aligned the computer with something that is often inspiring to many people and artists: nature. If I can find the sublime in microchips and SD cards in the same way that I find the sublime in mountains and waterfalls, I begin to look at my computer not as a tool but as a landscape. And when I look at it as a landscape it feels good because... See more