Jonathan Quaade
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Jonathan Quaade
Meditation is sustained thought along planned lines: it prudently investigates the cause and the source, the manner and the utility of each thing. Meditation takes its start from reading but is bound by none of reading’s rules or precepts. For it delights to range along open ground, where it fixes its free gaze upon the contemplation of truth,... See more
Hugh of Saint victor
one wonders what the mind would look like today if we again emphasized memory and meditation in this way,
In The Bell Jar, Plath writes (bolding mine):
I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and... See more
I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and... See more
But I think that for most of us there exists a question that could impact each of us similarly, and I know that most of us have not spent nearly enough time asking what that question is.
Let’s test that: what’s your question?
Packy McCormick • Long Questions/Short Answers
Caro asks: How does political power really work in America?
Packy McCormick • Long Questions/Short Answers
Robert Caro, writer
outlined my daily journalling practice for a 1-1 client i’m working with who wants to cultivate an intentional, practical way to connect with self. the tldr is: i clear out my dreams + late night thoughts, outline critical tasks for the day, and let a stream of consciousness flow https://t.co/4Bzz20yFnY
The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself.
paulgraham.com • How to Get Startup Ideas
“If you can’t look at all of your brand activities and decipher how you are shaping the perception of your category in a way that positions your brand as the natural winner, you do not have a strategy. You are merely reacting to the rules that another player has written.” - Jasmine Bina
Understand the specific moves a writer is making, in as much detail as possible. This involves a lot of close reading and reverse outlining. I’m essentially taking apart an essay and making extremely pedantic, precise observations: 12 paragraphs; first paragraph is 6 sentences long and opens with a quote, then context for the quote, then 2 short... See more