There’s soo much magic in youth
Young people look at so many of the status games of older folks—what brand of car is parked in your garage, what neighborhood can you afford to live in, how many levels below CEO are you in your org—and then look at apps like Vine and Musical.ly, and they choose the only real viable and thus optimal path before them. Remember the second tenet:
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I think I probably philosophically disagree with the statement that we've destroyed Earth. But this is about the mirror; this is about thinking larger and creating images that will solve these things as byproducts. If you fundamentally disagree with that perception, then there’s kind of like nowhere to go, right conversationally between us. But if
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“Why are we in all these conflicts? Because the images y'all make suck. That's the youth culture answer for you. The images y'all make suck. Marge is a better image, and it's gonna solve these things in a far more interesting way.'“
Reggie James
You have within you more resources of energy than have ever been tapped, more talent than has ever been exploited, more strength than has ever been tested, more to give than you have ever given.
You know about some of the gifts that you have left undeveloped. Would you believe that you have gifts and possibilities you don't even know about? It's
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I think a lot of kids are in that situation where you know ultimately they're just not being given the codes.
They have, they have unlimited curiosity, but really are not being given the codes.
Baukunst • This Could Still Be a Movement: Why Mars Needs a Creative Director
There’s soo much magic in youth
it discourages a certain form of dilettantism—peering into an adjacent field that you don’t have the “right” background for, using techniques you aren’t “qualified” to be doing, introducing references and sources that are nontraditional and even looked down upon in your primary field. Research as a leisure activity isn’t constrained by these
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One of my great joys is that my son Dev wants to build worlds and approaches almost everything through the lens of “Will this help me build a world?” I can see the question opening up places in his mind. My job now is to protect that question-led curiosity at all costs.
Packy McCormick • Long Questions/Short Answers
Embrace naivety
I went to the industrial design degree show at Central Saint Martins fairly recently, and was super energised by all the people imagining new possibilities for consumer electronics. I really believe that we're in a post-apple era, and the hardware products we use every day will begin to change... so hopefully we'll start to shift away from the
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