Courtney
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Courtney
Author E.B. White once captured the essence of why. “I wake up in the morning unsure of whether I want to savor the world or save the world,” White said , “This makes it hard to plan the day.”
Ben Casnocha • 10,000 Hours With Reid Hoffman: What I Learned
Always stick to what makes you weird, odd, strange, different. That’s your source of power.
Robert Greenetwitter.com
Resonate and Thought provoking
“Witch is just their nasty word for anyone who makes things happen, who moves the story along.”
The Manningtree Witches — A.K. Blakemore
Gramsci described the dialectic I am reaching for when he said we should practise pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will, a disjunction that will only work if both ends of the dialectic stay in touch with each other.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
“Walking the middle path” DBT concept
Opinion | Art Isn’t Supposed to Make You Comfortable
nytimes.com
“[T]he more we cultivate audiences who believe that the job of art is to instruct instead of investigate, to judge instead of question, to seek easy clarity instead of holding multiple uncertainties, the more we will find ourselves inside a culture defined by rigidity, knee-jerk judgments and incuriosity.”
To return to information overload: this means treating your "to read" pile like a river (a stream that flows past you, and from which you pluck a few choice items, here and there) instead of a bucket (which demands that you empty it). After all, you presumably don't feel overwhelmed by all the unread books in the British Library – and not because
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Treat Your to-Read Pile Like a River, Not a Bucket
Somebody once said that a good science-fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.