Connection
More generally, it’s not beginnings and ends that count, but middles. Things and thoughts advance or grow out from the middle, and that’s where you have to get to work, that’s where everything unfolds.
– Gilles Deleuze, On Leibniz
I like the “Some Things” section because it makes it easier and more enthusiastic to seek out and experience the featured person’s work.
It is contributing to the flow and connectivity of the world wide web.
Sometimes people think I’m an idiot for doing this, taking all this time, but I think it’s actually part of my work. I’m enjoying it, but it’s work. I’m doing my own PR.
Charlie Sextro • Filmmaker Sean Baker on not giving up – The Creative Independent
“Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer
Making the social web really work
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Cards Against Humanity Asked People to Give It $5 on Black Friday for Nothing in Return. The Stunt Worked.
Matt Weinberger • Cards Against Humanity Asked People to Give It $5 on Black Friday for Nothing in Return. The Stunt Worked.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Austin Kleon • 100 quotes that helped me write
Entrepreneurship is connecting, creating, and inventing systems—be they businesses, people, ideas, or processes. A job is the act of following the operating system someone else created.
Taylor Pearson • The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5
It may seem like a stretch to draw a comparison between winning football games in Green Bay and developing web browser software in Cupertino, but a significant part of attaining excellence in any field is closing the gap between the accidental and intentional, to achieve not just a something or even an everything but a specific and well-chosen thin
... See moreKen Kocienda • Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
Hello no it’s not! If there is no pattern or connection visible, then it’s more likely because it’s beyond our present perception or we’re not looking at it from the right perspective.