Thought provoking
by Nathan Spainhour · updated 4d ago
Thought provoking
Thoughts are the greatest vehicle to change power and success in the world. Everything begins with thoughts.
- Oprah
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- we’re going to look back at how we designed the world around computers with the same regret that we look at how we’ve designed cities around cars
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The right journey is the ultimate destination. – The most prolific and beneficial experience in life is not in actually achieving something you want, but in seeking it. It’s the journey towards an endless horizon that matters—goals and dreams that move forward with you as you chase them. It’s all about meaningful pursuits—the “moving”—and wh
... See morefrom 19 Great Truths My Grandmother Told Me on Her 90th Birthday by Marc Chernoff
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Rufus Stott
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Me is overrated
We is underratedPlanning is overrated
Planting is underratedAnswers are overrated
Questions are underratedVirality is overrated
Quality is underratedh/t Blas Moros
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- Taste is the bone-deep feeling that you’ve made something good. It is a sense, inexplicable and ephemeral.
from The Art of Scaling Taste by Evan Armstrong
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- We value the virtual representation of an object more than we do the object itself (Walter Benjamin would like a word!) You can see this phenomenon as well in the proliferation of brands executing brief, localised wildposting campaigns in cool New York neighbourhoods. While these might catch the eye of a handful of locals, the value of these print ... See more
from Elizabeth Goodspeed on the power and perils of the mockup
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- A beautiful poem by Mary Oliver. The last line is 🔥 When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me, and snaps the purse shut; when death comes like the measle-pox; when death comes like an iceberg between the shoulder blades, I want to step through the... See more
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