J. Danielle
@jasminedanielle
strategist. writer. tinkerer. hobby hobbyist.
J. Danielle
lettersfromthebside.substack.com
“Youth culture has driven culture for time immemorial, but more than ever before, female youth culture drives culture,”
Terence Reilly Made Crocs and Stanley Cups Cool. Can He Do It ...
“All great truths begin as blasphemies.” George Bernard Shaw
Peter D'Autry • Math and Logic Cannot Create Minds
Opinion | The Way Harris Lost Will Be Her Legacy
nytimes.com
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
entirely, from listing the reasons an idea won't work to trying to think of ways it could. That's what I do when I meet people with new ideas.
switch polarity
entirely, from listing the reasons an idea won't work to trying to think of ways it could. That's what I do when I meet people with new ideas.
Paul Graham • Early Work
Wheel of Life
Love this definition of art, from Robert Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance:
... See moreArt is anything you can do well, anything you can do with quality, anything where there are options for doing it well or poorly. And there are very few things in this world that don't have options for doing it well or poorly. So you can make an art
There are two kinds of writing; alive writing and dead writing. Alive writing invokes sensuousness, expansion, and insight. It transforms and enlarges its reader. It is a kind of disclosure; simultaneously immanent and transcendent. Dead writing is passive, sentimental and afraid of telling the truth. It discloses nothing except its own... See more