Thought poking
Words and ideas that poke your brain and make ya go huh
Thought poking
Most people hoard their ideas. The best make them spread.
Vicky • [Outliers] Steve Wozniak: The Engineer Who Built Apple
Fast gets all the attention.
Slow has all the power.
If you're feeling everyone around you is moving faster and achieving more while you're being left behind—take a breath. That narrative is bullshit.
Slow has all the power.
If you're feeling everyone around you is moving faster and achieving more while you're being left behind—take a breath. That narrative is bullshit.
Sari Azout • Patience Is the Ultimate Competitive Advantage
Bureaucracies make everyone feel productive while doing very little useful work.
Shane Parrish • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
Do ideas have agency?
Do they crave to be shared?
To be reproduced, like humans?
And if ideas have agency, do stories?
Do we tell stories, or do stories tell us?
Do we make sounds, or do sounds make us?
Does it matter?
Probably not.
Either way, our job is simply to listen.
And in listening, pay attention, be present, and perhaps create something... See more
Do they crave to be shared?
To be reproduced, like humans?
And if ideas have agency, do stories?
Do we tell stories, or do stories tell us?
Do we make sounds, or do sounds make us?
Does it matter?
Probably not.
Either way, our job is simply to listen.
And in listening, pay attention, be present, and perhaps create something... See more
Alex Dobrenko` • How the Sounds of a Calculator Ended Up on Sublime's Website
Adapted from “The Goose and the Common” and Sunrise on the Reaping (pg. 253)
“Just that. Listen, wasn’t it Odo who said that where there’s property there’s theft?” “ ‘To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.’
Ursula K. LeGuin • The Dispossessed (S.F. MASTERWORKS)
Wish for things in the future, not the past
my bold; from Pierce Brown’s Morning Star pg. 305
Adapted from Gretchen Rubin’s “Are you drifting?” quiz