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It can be hard to bear, how the cosmos went from hydrogen to the double helix by its own insentient laws, forged from the iron rib of dying stars creatures capable of the Benedictus and the atomic bomb, hurled ice ages and earthquakes at the rocky body of a world we now walk in skins and nervous systems over which have had no say, born into familie... See more

8. “As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”

We don’t have material anymore, simply forms mediated by screens. Our input is mediated, our output is mediated. We shape letters from numbers and draw curves with equations. Letters are no longer things, but pictures of things transmitted by light.

We are debris arrangers. Equipped with what we have inherited, we try to make a life, make a living and make art. We are assemblers. We forge received parts into meaningful compositions. This state of affairs is our plight and our destiny, but it also offers the opportunity to find meaning as well as to find communion with others.”

Smart people think they need to know everything before they start. But the internet doesn't reward the most knowledgeable person. It rewards the person who ships. And learns from it. So they can ship something better next time.

Take one small step today. Not tomorrow. Not next week. To-freakin-day.

1- Goals are guesses. No one knows exactly what they’re going to be doing 17.5 years from now. No sense in laboring over a false sense of precision. Just guess.

Welcome, brave duke. Thy friendship makes us fresh.

“In life, we cannot always control the first arrow; however, the second arrow is our reaction to the first. The second arrow is optional.”

We call it a belief system because it's more than a collection of values. It's how we see the world and what is missing.

1. Make stuff you use every day —it makes for a better life.


2. Make it better —do less if you need to.


3. Nothing is finished —everything can be rethought.


4. Think small —make one small part of the world as it should be.


5. Slow down —put in

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