things you should remember
Just because someone is saying things you don’t like doesn’t mean that they are not on your side.
The willingness to endure five minutes of discomfort turns out to be a meaningful dividing line in life.
The difference between seriousness and sincerity is not how involved you are in the activities of your life, but in how tightly you grip. In fact, I would go even further still: Gripping less tightly can unlock better performance and with much less effort, as I’ve written about before. Simple activities, like playing catch, floating in a pool, or b... See more
Be Sincere—Not Serious
"We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side."
— Charlie Munger
Hold on tightly, but let go lightly. Nearly everything can be replaced. And if it can’t be replaced, celebrate its existence instead of fretting over its loss.
People Can Only Meet You As Deeply As They’ve Met Themselves.
Zoe Scaman • Forty Years, Forty Lessons
First
Remember: doing experience design well — making beautiful, wondrous, kind, breathtaking things, requires...you.
You, specifically.
Your weird, full, curious brain and tender little inside self. It wants for emergence and energy and is hungry to be inspired.
And those things need the fallow seasons. The spaces of nothingness and slugtime and dark... See more
Remember: doing experience design well — making beautiful, wondrous, kind, breathtaking things, requires...you.
You, specifically.
Your weird, full, curious brain and tender little inside self. It wants for emergence and energy and is hungry to be inspired.
And those things need the fallow seasons. The spaces of nothingness and slugtime and dark... See more
Time for the dark
Humans are simpler than the instructions would have us believe. We’re all looking for the same things. To be seen. To be accepted. To connect. To matter. This is true for readers and writers and kids and strangers and the cast of Love Is Blind.
