Connection
People hire services not just based on what they can do but how it makes them feel.
Paul Stamatiou • Craft
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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.
A Richer Canvas - Mark Boulton
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source: Die neue Typographie by Jan Tschichold
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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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
Jean Louis • Information Nutrition
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Speed of associative thought is, I believe, important in creative work. – John Littlewood
Michael Nielsen • Augmenting Long-Term Memory
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Increase social support
Social support is the last coping strategy on the list, and it’s perhaps my favorite one.
If you give a primate a stressor in the lab, you’ll find elevated markers of stress in its behavior and in its blood. But give the primate a stressor when it’s surrounded by friends—its stress markers will be lower, even for the same lev... See more
Social support is the last coping strategy on the list, and it’s perhaps my favorite one.
If you give a primate a stressor in the lab, you’ll find elevated markers of stress in its behavior and in its blood. But give the primate a stressor when it’s surrounded by friends—its stress markers will be lower, even for the same lev... See more
Dan Shipper • How Hard Should I Push Myself?
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We are here to connect deeply, and to feel everything together. Trusting that, believing in it, and spreading love and compassion: That’s our solemn duty, today and every day.
Heather Havrilesky • The Rise of Emotional Divestment
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"i'm here with you" hits much harder than "i'm here for you"
-molly mielke
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