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To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. - Mary Oliver
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Bill Wurtz on HTML Energy
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- If you're small, you're in a position where it's to your advantage to be weird—you can have a point of view that the big tech companies never could. In the world of chairs—you're not going to build a cheaper chair than Ikea. Why not build something they couldn't—like a more interesting one?
from No More Boring Apps | (Not Boring) Software by (Not Boring) Software Inc.
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Don’t do any task in order to get it over with. Resolve to do each job in a relaxed way, with all your attention. Enjoy and be one with your work.
—Thích Nhất Hạnh, The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
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Jim Simons: "I’m not an extremely fast thinker myself; I just work hard."
That was all I needed to do—work hard, not fast. A paper I published in '68 took me five years. But it has had 1,850 citations. For a math paper, that’s an awful lot.
There’s too much emphasis on a person’s being able to answer questions quickly."
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The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing a book by ...
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Alice Phoebe Lou - Paper Castles - a documentary
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- So what’s the smallest way to have that kind of experience?
from Protocol Fiction, Desire, and Belief by Matt Webb
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Matt Webb asks in Protocols, Desire, and Belief in the context of creating belief and desire as illustrated by Stripes insanely simple “seven lines of code” to integrate
- Material artifacts have an ability to enroll and align different tribes in a way that text doesn’t. The goal is to make “boundary objects” - artifacts that self-translate for all kinds of different tribes, and allow these actors to communicate with one another, even when they’re speaking different languages.
Think of the magical role of self-evident... See morefrom Protocol Fiction, Desire, and Belief by Matt Webb
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- Normalise to persuade.
from Protocol Fiction, Desire, and Belief by Matt Webb
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from Matt Ward in Fiction as Pedagogic Practice