Quotes

I’ve come to realize: being a generalist isn’t something we choose. It’s something inherently in our nature — it’s how we see the world. We can think of this approach as a ‘cognitive preference’.

(„I podobnie ja k pole, posługując się tym samym po równaniem, chociaż żyzne, nie może być urodzajne bez uprawy, rów nież i dusza bez nauki. Jedna rzecz bez drugiej je st w ięc bezsilna. U p raw ą duszy zaś je st filozofia: ono w yryw a z korzeniami wady i przygotowuje dusze do przy jęcia ziarna, powierza im je i, że tak po wiem, zasiewa, aby dojrz... See more

“Limit everything to the essential but do not remove the poetry.”

— Dieter Rams, quoted in Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams

“When failure is expensive, plan carefully.

When failure is cheap, act quickly.”

Kaskie: We are not trying to be everything to everybody. We’re trying to be something to someone.

Do you want to learn who you are? Learn your story. Do you want to learn your story? Start looking at what’s happening in you emotionally. A good place to begin connecting the dots is your past. As you uncover more and more of the truth of who you are, it will unleash desires within you so that you can figure out what you want to do in the world an

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many of us are addicted and don’t even come to the internet for joy, knowledge or connection anymore— we just do it because we are 100% wired into the machine and can’t break the cycle.

we’ve turned everything in life into a giant popularity contest–everything you say, everything you experience, everything you see, and even everything you feel–is a product of a giant worldwide counter of likes and follows. It’s a planet-wide exercise in objective convergence, a giant narcissism amplifier that cynically assumes that competing for m... See more

The way of the tourist is to consume; the way of the pilgrim is to be consumed. To the tourist the journey is a means. The pilgrim understands that it is both a means and an end in itself. The tourist and the pilgrim experience time differently. For the former, time is the foe that gives consumption its urgency. For the latter, time is a gift in wh... See more