Jonathan Quaade
@jonathanquaade
Jonathan Quaade
For me, the ability to concentrate, you know, to get fascinated with something and really dig into it, which as I got older I could choose what I concentrated on. And when I was in high school, I was okay at it, but I remember being down in my room thinking, "Okay, I'm going to work on my homework and do really well this year." But then there were
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Too often, we optimize for the numerical thing, time and speed. We’re not optimizing for the emotional state, which is disquiet or anxiety.
With advertising, you can rebrand time: “Good things come to those who wait.”
With advertising, you can rebrand time: “Good things come to those who wait.”
Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
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,
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questions are the guide to life
It’s why fashion writers end up writing about the history of gender identity (through writing about masculine/feminine clothing) and cross-cultural exchange (through writing about cultural appropriation and styles borrowed from other times and places) and historical trade networks (through writing about where textiles come from).
Why Beauty Matters
(and how it has been destroyed by "usability")
A short thread... https://t.co/lBixviXkT9
This is me saying: if I knew I were going to die sooner (morbid, I know) I would be writing more, creating more, and just doing more of what I am already doing, with less doubt and more focus.
Even the biggest companies with the deepest pockets are struggling to hire top design talent. And as usual, it comes down to a fundamental misunderstanding of what drives most great designers. They want to be surrounded by other great designers and a culture that cares.
Benji Taylorx.com