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The Spiritual Child — Dr. Lisa Miller
As a kid did you ever stare into your own eyes in the mirror long enough to lose your sense of reality?
A child can spend an hour fascinated by light reflecting on a wall. Adults often require escalating stimulation because familiarity numbs perception.W
And there’s a lot of positive evidence. It’s not that there’s some metaphysical concept of beauty that rules the world — beauty is a human experience.
It is that the attribute we call beauty is of two kinds. One is a parochial kind of attractiveness, local to a species, to a culture or to an individu
Aesthetics are your problem and mine. Nobody else’s. The fact of the matter is I want everything we do, that I do personally, that our office does, to
THEN Almitra spoke again and said, And what of Marriage, master? And he answered saying: You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore
And yet, as is often the case, those of us who need love so badly at a particular moment can be off-putting to those who want to love us, and to those
Two loves hold reality and make our universe unique to the rest: tetrahedron → “hollywood love” hypertetrahedron/pentachoron/5-cell → “real love“ —88
Hellman & Friedman's majority stake in Global Music Rights marks a watershed moment — private equity firms now control three major PROs (alo
Gen AI for music has captured ~$300M in funding so far this year across several high-profile deals, the majority of which either focus on rights man
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So much value and love for the process of writing and what it does for the coherence between heart, brain, imagination, lived reality, unseen, and see
You can’t write a viral essay that says “it’s complicated and I’m not sure.” But this is the only path to truly novel insight.
Writing is a task that takes both objective and subjective intelligence. LLMs ace the objective parts the same way they ace every test; you can’t faul
She was imprisoned by two words: what if. What if I’d known she was dying? What if I’d known I was about to lose her? But what-ifs don’t empower us. T
Parents often say, “I’d die for my child.” I heard a few of the parents in the grief group express the wish to trade places with their deceased childr
Tzutijil-initiated shaman Martín Prechtel correctly tells us that grief -for a person, for a country, for an ideal- is praise because it is the natura
"Every product in the world, the quality at the end of the day is simply a reflection of how much the people who created it gave a shit about the prod
we have a world where friction gets automated out of experiences, aestheticized in curated lifestyles, and dumped onto underfunded infrastructure and
Long-tail users of user-centered design are not given the degree of control necessary to adapt the design object or tool to their unique needs, and de
design is the embodiment of values. Design is the ultimate commitment to or compromise of one’s values. And this is how we go about the world. We make
When Times New Roman appears in a book, document, or advertisement, it connotes apathy. It says, “I submitted to the typeface of least resistance.” Ti
What gets clicks becomes what gets made. The edges get sanded down. Originality gives way to imitation. Junk food wins, so everyone starts cooking cra
It takes yesterday’s trends, remixes them with today’s keywords, and spits out tomorrow’s mediocrity. It’s not thinking. It’s rehashing. Recursively,
We must choose the “longest way round” because meaning is neither fast nor viral nor optimized.It’s made. Slowly. Painfully. Honestly.By humans.
But what felt new was the speed and violence with which language now manifests markets. I’d sit in meetings as a single phrase “AI-native vertical Saa
They’ll tell you , you need to be kind and forthright and aggressive and meditative and a free spirit and dependable and cautious and not be pushed ar
There are no more tricks to play when the frightened mind and the seeking mind meet.
I yam ruled by honor and its contradictions
The heart is an organ of paradox: it empties and fills simultaneously.
How @Linear builds product: 1. No product managers, just a head of product. PM duties are distributed across engineering and design. 2. No durable c
Too many understand quality as polish. It's not the same thing. If build something good, even if it’s a bit rough. That’s great. But don’t fall into
I want them to take away from the book the same thing they would take from the concert. I want them to think, well, I feel better now. I feel upli
Bubbling excitement for what the day holds. Novelty in the smallest of things. Unburdened by the clouds of worry that dim an adults life. Possibility
A great story about simplicity from Akio Morita, the instigator of the Walkman project at Sony: Engineers had the technology to add the recording func
Long-tail users of user-centered design are not given the degree of control necessary to adapt the design object or tool to their unique needs, and de
The engineer who truly understands the problem often finds that the elegant solution is simpler than anyone expected. The engineer who starts with a
This is pretty good, and strangely consistent with my own idea of good taste Tasteful people pursue stuff with purpose, have an appreciation and curi
On paper, taste = discernment. In practice, taste = your sense of self, made visible.
For Kant, judgment is the mental faculty that connects particulars to universals—the capacity to say “this thing is an instance of that category.” But
A system optimized for noise elimination is hostile to the genuinely new. It converges on what works, on what has worked. That convergence might produ
the best relationships consist of a series of unbreachable private understandings
convinced that adults have totally forgotten how to have fun in conversation. every conversation is either "checklist catch up on life events" or "gr
What is love? Ask 19 geniuses. Get 19 answers. • Plato: It's remembering a soul. • Freud: It's desire in disguise. • Buddha: It's letting go. • Nietz
If you have a creative block, you need releasing. It is ALWAYS about release. An orgasm. A cry/scream. An adventure. A technique. An intervention wit
The more you release, the easier it becomes.The more you release, the closer to your truth you get.The more you release, the more you see who you real
A leading indicator of personal growth is how curious you are able to be with all your emotions - especially the ones you weren't allowed to feel as a
a big theme from opening sessions at @bowmansschool is the importance of paying attention to your feelings a few people have said they don't have acc
How to be more emotionally intelligent (without trying so hard) 🧵 for @threadapalooza
The most competent people I know are pretty good at basically anything they put their minds to, because they just design a process and run it. I think
I am often tempted to wonder when it will get easy until, in contemplation, I am reminded to relinquish the judgement of things and their unfolding.
If only the answer were anything but time and the willingness to be changed. I desperately want to stop minding so much about other people, life, and
The paradigm of acceleration fails to grasp the deeper human tension between action and contemplation. It’s a false binary, one that Benedict XVI (the
I didn’t feel comfortable inside the endlessness of it. I am the kind of writer who believes in taking the time I need to come up with something worth
“Life is always winking at us, calling our attention to the beauty hidden in plain sight. Why do we so often miss what’s right in front of us, lost in
The writer Ted Chiang was once asked in an interview if he ever considered publishing more frequently. Chiang, one of the greatest living fiction writ
pretty clear that collecting cultural ephemera is a new consumer behavior that’s going to become a core part of life on the internet
Books you read are sending you input. Your friends modeling behaviors for you. Newspapers. Tools. People you follow on Twitter. The architecture of a
The dream isn’t just to show all of ourselves unfiltered to the world. It’s to find a character that we feel comfortable being, that we deeply resonat
