Gus Guerrero
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Gus Guerrero
When research is your leisure activity, you’ll end up making connections between your existing interests and new ideas or topics. Everything gets pulled into the orbit of your intellectual curiosity. You can go deeper and deeper into a narrow topic, one that seems fascinatingly trivial and end up learning about the big topics: gender, culture,... See more
Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity
what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation
erin glasstwitter.com“All those things that I've always tried to push away — having a vivid imagination or asking weird questions or whatever, I gave them a voice by writing and that's now what I do. So, all those things that I was so ashamed of or that made me feel really weird, are now what I actually like about myself. My writing has taken me places that I really
... See more“The chief utility of a general theory... of strategy lies in its ability not to point out lessons, but to isolate things that need thinking about. Theory provides insights and questions, not answers.”
Strategy, Rediscovered? — Martin Weigel
"The stronger [the] identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction."
Agalia • how are you talking about yourself today?
Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas in Generic City
was better to hear the unhappy details of such a life from the lips of the man who had led it rather than from someone else. Mothers often portrayed fathers in too flattering a light. Obituaries rarely told the whole story, especially when their subjects led classified lives.
Daniel Silva • The Black Widow
“Strategy can be considered a simple machine that consists of just four working parts: Ends, Ways, Means, and Assumptions”
For Gray, Ends were the goals, Ways the actions taken, Means were the resources deployed, and Assumptions were the necessary leaps, imagination, and guesses.
Strategy, Rediscovered? — Martin Weigel
Strategy is about “shifting events and outcomes in one’s favour. Strategy in other words, is about creating new futures.”
The idea of research as leisure activity has stayed with me because it seems to describe a kind of intellectual inquiry that comes from idiosyncratic passion and interest. It’s not about the formal credentials. It’s fundamentally about play . It seems to describe a life where it’s just fun to be reading, learning, writing, and collaborating on... See more