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“Time will multiply whatever you feed it. Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.”

advice from Asmeret Berhe-Lumax , a visionary leader and dedicated advocate for community empowerment and the Founder and CEO of One Love Community

You’ve had remarkable success in such a short time. What advice would you give to someone who’s just starting out or hesitant to begin their creative

“love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy” because “our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness,” Rilke

Regardless of what happens, our six weeks taught me that the deepest connections don’t come from trying to prove our worth, but from having the courag

an abundance of verbosity rather than quality, noise rather than impact.

To such doubtful amulets had my self-respect been pinned, and I faced myself that day with the nonplussed wonder of someone who has come across a vamp

The utopia was temporary, its beauty and its small victories whittled away by the scythe of inaction.

“This paint lasts a long time because of the quality, but it’s also the emotional thing. So we didn’t have to burden you too much with the rational bi

What are the 5Cs *for desktop research*? Company - Summarize where the company is at now, what internal and external factors are affecting its growth

the first draft is for finding out what you think. The second draft is for making the reader see it.

In short, your first draft is to extract novel ideas out of your brain. Your second draft is to rewrite those ideas so they resonate.

First drafts tend to be a bit chaotic because writing is, at its core, a process of discovery. When you first put those initial words on the page, you

“The trick to writing well is to... – take long sentences and make them short – take confusing ideas and make them clear – take unrelated con

Work beyond what is required of you, for your own fulfillment.

“When you work hard you put yourself in a better position to take advantage of luck.” Roxanne Gay

The point is not to try harder; it's to resist life less.

The right way to deal with new ideas is to treat them as a challenge to your imagination — not just to have lower standards, but to switch polarity en

“Good ideas can’t be scheduled”

We assume people want polished perfection. But often, they’re more drawn to the rough draft. The early adopters, the ones who find you first? They’re

To research is to follow a scent. Sometimes you know what you’re looking for. Sometimes you don’t. Sometimes it starts with a single word you can’t sh

journaling for anti-curriculum What do I want to learn? Why do I want to learn? How much time do I have to learn? Where is the first accessible place

Keep asking: What emotion do I feel when I see this designer’s work — calm, tension, nostalgia, thrill? What forms repeat across what I love — str

Voltaire once wrote that, “in order to have taste, it is not enough to see and to know what is beautiful in a given work. One must feel beauty and be

The capacity to act in concert for a public-political purpose is what Arendt calls power. Power needs to be distinguished from strength, force, and vi

Power, properly understood, is the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political or economic changes.

In the first century BC, Cicero said: “Freedom is participation in power.”

For the academy, “research” is a term of art. For our purposes, research is not a rarefied academic exercise. It is a fundamentally human activity, an

Research as leisure activity is directed by passions and instincts. It’s fundamentally very personal: What are you interested in now? It’s fine, and m

You don’t need a full thesis. Just an angle. A thread.

To research is to follow a scent. Sometimes you know what you’re looking for. Sometimes you don’t. Sometimes it starts with a single word you can’t sh

Did Daniela Andrade walk so Rosalia and Kali Uchis could run?

Before we had vibes, we had the chillier, more Germanic zeitgeist. Both tap into our appetite for locating our lives within a bigger picture. But vibe

My closet became less of a project and more of a projection. Transference at its finest.

It’s nowhere near a capsule wardrobe, but it's madness contained. Me, concentrated. Every piece is either thoughtfully chosen or intentionally kept fr

In truth, most of us don’t suffer from a knowledge deficit—we suffer from a doing deficit. We take online courses and read books but rarely apply what

This is the very bland and very basic and college-freshman level thing I’ve been thinking about: what is luxury?

“If someone truly is creative and inspiring,” they write, “it will show up in how they allocate their spare time.” In job interviews, the authors advi

How to Read a Collection 1. Context & Conversation Who: Who designed it? What’s their background and prior house (if any)? Where: Which fashion hous

Keep asking: What emotion do I feel when I see this designer’s work — calm, tension, nostalgia, thrill? What forms repeat across what I love — str