Jacob Sam-La Rose
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Jacob Sam-La Rose
But Brown argues that play is not an option. In fact he writes, “The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.” He explains, “Respecting our biologically programmed need for play can transform work. It can bring back excitement and newness to our job. Play helps us deal with difficulties, provides a sense of expansiveness,
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Play can easily be dismissed as childish, irresponsible and unbecoming of the seriousness required of us modern achievement-subjects. But the demand for playful living is really a demand to reject the conditions of the achievement society. Embracing play is a bold defiance against the relentless productivity mantra of the achievement society. But
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“I’ll put it to you as a problem in fairness. I have made, let us say, so and so many films. That means that so and so many thousands of feet of rawstock have been expended, for which I paid the manufacturer. The processing lab was paid, by me, to develop the stuff, after it was exposed in a camera for which I paid. The lens grinders got paid. Then... See more
Do artists get paid for making art?
Do artists get paid for making art?
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Not to sound like a curmudgeon, but when I was a teenager, I took the train to go to the record store to find rare stuff. Spotify is way more convenient, but that wasn’t the point. The point was to get out and to feel like you’re hunting, to feel like you’re living your life. I’m going to the movies, I’m going to this show. What streaming has... See more
how do we keep seeing the world as if for the first time? How do we read the hundredth sentence with the same curiosity as the first?
These days, I’m less drawn to being a tourist. But I admire the tourist’s falling-in-love gaze. That capacity to care endlessly about a subject—like a parent for their child, or a painter for water lilies or swimming... See more
These days, I’m less drawn to being a tourist. But I admire the tourist’s falling-in-love gaze. That capacity to care endlessly about a subject—like a parent for their child, or a painter for water lilies or swimming... See more
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"The job of a poet," he said, "is not to kill poets by creating disciples," but the other way around, "to create poets by killing disciples or himself. Whether killing himself or his disciples, what the true poet gives is life, not death like the supposed 'master."
—Juan Ramón Jiménez, The Complete Perfectionist
Mmm. In the context of working as a mentor. Need to think further on this to try reconcile the tension between “killing” self/others and giving life. Seems oxymoronic. By inference/extension, ‘masters’ practice death. By establishing a rigid path or ‘way’ for their followers? Link to some of Bruce Lee’s thinking on Jeet Kune Do…
Things will only change when being an asshole stops being a competitive advantage.
Until that day arrives, I have to learn to live in a state of tension with my tools. I have to acknowledge and accept the fact that I use tools built by awful people to create beautiful things.
Until that day arrives, I have to learn to live in a state of tension with my tools. I have to acknowledge and accept the fact that I use tools built by awful people to create beautiful things.
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We’ve structured our society so that the best products and services are made by the worst people in the world. Of course you can deliver packages earlier than everyone else if you overwork your employees. Of course you can sell the fastest computers at the cheapest prices if you keep moving your manufacturing operations to countries with the worst... See more