Words to live by
My job is not to think about what exists but rather what I want that does not yet exist.
Lessons I'm still learning
We, as cultural workers, people who labor in paintbrushes, camera lenses, Photoshop, song, pen and paper, and other forms of artistic labor, have to see ourselves and our work as weapons in a war for liberation. Our task is heavy: to create a culture of revolution.
Musa • Cultural Worker, Not A “Creative”
“Things that are iconic are those things steeped in purpose and intention”
Janelle Monet
“I believe in freedom of speech and people are entitled to articulate their views but they’re not entitled to have an alternative set of facts”
— taoiseach simon harris
Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.
-David Ogilvy
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
– Michael J. Fox
I’m no longer content to ask, “What do you think about X?” Instead, I ask, “How did you come to believe X?”
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
Understanding all behavior makes sense with sufficient information transforms how we view others. It challenges us to move beyond snap judgments and approach things with curiosity. Instead of asking, ‘why are they acting like this’ we can try, ‘what might I not know about their world?’