“In life the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you’re playing.”

-Kwame Anthony Appiah

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

A new idea is a network of cells exploring the adjacent possible of connections that they can make in your mind.

-Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From

Curators are API’s that exist between people and all the knowledge of the world.

An API is an “application programming interface” that allows two apps to communicate, sending data between someone requesting something and a database full of data.

A curator exists in the space between people who want to know more about a topic and the massive amounts

This rant via Shalom Auslander

I was thinking about sex the other day because I was having a really depressing day, and a dead body had been found by the pier, and as I was taking my son to school and waiting at a traffic light, a homeless man in a mad fury began circling my car, shouting and spitting, and it felt like forever before the light turne

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“The world reveals itself to those who walk” — Werner Herzog

“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Confidence is belief in yourself. Certainty is belief in your beliefs. Confidence is a bridge. Certainty is a barricade.”

-Kevin Ashton