Thought provoking
James Buckhouse • How to Say Hello
“So, Jim, What do you do?”
“ I believe story, art, and design can bend the arc of humanity’s progress, and I try to bring that into everything I do: from movies to startups to paintings to books and to
James Buckhouse • How to Say Hello
One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.
Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.
... See moreYou just need to be smart enough to understand that your success is more about your courage than your intelligence.
Often we fail to improve our lives simply because things don't get bad enough. If your new job is hell, you’ll leave it, but if it’s just unsatisfying, you’ll likely grind it out. Thus, small problems often threaten our quality of life more than big ones.
Gurwinder • 25 Useful Ideas for 2025
Sublime is not:
Sublime is not another note-taking tool to add your grocery list or to store your kids health insurance info – the ideas that move you should not live alongside the daily minutia.
Sublime is not a read it later tool that becomes a graveyard of junk.
Sublime is not a social network – there’s no likes, no comments, no vanity metrics.
Subl
What risk are we radically underestimating as a species? What are we overestimating?
I think we’ve still underestimated the harms of scrolling. I am careful to say “scrolling” because I don’t think social media is itself a bad thing, nor do I think screens are uniformly bad. I think it’s specifically the act of scrolling, which forces us to ingest,... See more
I think we’ve still underestimated the harms of scrolling. I am careful to say “scrolling” because I don’t think social media is itself a bad thing, nor do I think screens are uniformly bad. I think it’s specifically the act of scrolling, which forces us to ingest,... See more
Nadia Asparouhova • Nadia Asparouhova on antimemetics, nuclear mysticism, and scrolling
“You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.”
― Anne Bogart
― Anne Bogart
Anne Bogart Quotes (Author of A Director Prepares)
"Your calendar is the most honest autobiography you'll ever write.
It doesn't matter what you say your priorities are; your calendar reveals the truth. Each block is a decision about what matters, stripped of pretense and rationalization.
Your calendar isn't just recording your time—it's exposing your lies."
via @farnamstreet