J. Danielle
@jasminedanielle
strategist. writer. tinkerer. hobby hobbyist.
J. Danielle
lettersfromthebside.substack.com
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
Hannah Close • Art, AI, and the Courage to Create
Dipa’s guide to furnishing your home
dopeshika.notion.site
I’m no longer content to ask, “What do you think about X?” Instead, I ask, “How did you come to believe X?”
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
Toni Morrison on beauty:
“I think of beauty as an absolute necessity. I don’t think it’s a privilege or an indulgence, it’s not even a quest. I think it’s almost like knowledge, which is to say, it’s what we were born for. I think finding, incorporating and then representing beauty is what humans do. With or without authorities telling us what it... See more
“I think of beauty as an absolute necessity. I don’t think it’s a privilege or an indulgence, it’s not even a quest. I think it’s almost like knowledge, which is to say, it’s what we were born for. I think finding, incorporating and then representing beauty is what humans do. With or without authorities telling us what it... See more
Shane Parrish • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
We’re inclined to leave them unencumbered by a definition, to preserve their ability to shift shapes.
Notes on “Taste” | Are.na Editorial
I love the way this sentence is structured
The essence of positioning is sacrifice. You must be willing to give up something in order to establish that unique position. Nyquil, the nighttime cold medicine, gave up the daytime market. The focus of most marketing operations is just the opposite. They look for ways to broaden their markets by line extension, by size and flavor proliferation,
... See moreJack Trout • Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind
That essential friction—between how you see yourself and how the world sees you—occupied the thoughts of every girl I spoke to. Coming of age is that moment when awareness descends on you like an itchy wool sweater. How do you move around it? Can you just take it off?