Connection
- Speed of associative thought is, I believe, important in creative work. – John Littlewood
from Augmenting Long-Term Memory by Michael Nielsen
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The longer I live the more I learn that love — whether we call it friendship, family, or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light.
—James Baldwin
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- I feel such intense gratitude when I read a book by someone who, for a brief moment, makes me feel less alone in the world and makes these complicated things in my brain feel a little easier to understand.
from On What Makes a Good Writer with Kevin Wilson by Kevin Wilson
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Though largely forgotten today, methods and rules upon which it is impossible to improve have been developed for centuries. To produce perfect books these rules have to be brought to life.
from A Richer Canvas - Mark Boulton
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source: Die neue Typographie by Jan Tschichold
- Grid system design should begin with a constraint. Something that is knowable and unchangeable. This constraint is used to build the modules of your grid. In book design, that constraint is defined by the page through subdivision. Book designers take the page, divide it up into a modular grid of spaces. These spaces (called modules) are then combin... See more
from A Richer Canvas - Mark Boulton
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Content out
- The adjacent possible is about taking two seemingly unconnected ideas and metaphorically placing them next to each other to see how they might work together.
from “Stealing Your Way to Original Designs,” an article by Dan Mall by Dan Mall
shashaank added 22d ago
Are these connections or intersections?
- Building a T-shaped knowledge graph means aggressively diversifying your information sources, spreading out wider to seemingly unrelated areas and capturing the advantage of being at the beginning of the diminishing returns curve where you’re constantly exposed to new ideas. It also means being selectively ignorant about certain things. You have to... See more
from Information Nutrition by Jean Louis
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