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Everyone is rightly focused on the music, but there is also medicine in reading the comments below. Everyone trying to put their emotions into words,

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design is the embodiment of values. Design is the ultimate commitment to or compromise of one’s values. And this is how we go about the world. We make

When Times New Roman appears in a book, document, or advertisement, it connotes apathy. It says, “I submitted to the typeface of least resistance.” Ti

We see something that works, and then we understand it “We see something that works, and then we understand it.” (Thomas Dullien) It is a deeper

“So thinking is prior to language. What language contributes is to firm up certain particular ways of seeing the world and give fixity to them. This h

“His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the over

Anthea often uses metaphors to develop and convey new conceptualizations. This approach is in keeping with studies about the significant role of metap

Kelly's insight about wine applies perfectly to how we think about personal growth. Just as mindlessly drinking more wine doesn't make us better wine

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This is pretty good, and strangely consistent with my own idea of good taste Tasteful people pursue stuff with purpose, have an appreciation and curi

On paper, taste = discernment. In practice, taste = your sense of self, made visible.

For Kant, judgment is the mental faculty that connects particulars to universals—the capacity to say “this thing is an instance of that category.” But

A system optimized for noise elimination is hostile to the genuinely new. It converges on what works, on what has worked. That convergence might produ

While in theory the notion of Quality might appear rather philosophical and idealistic, in practiceit could not be more pragmatic. One can think of Qu

Taste is eating software. Taste is the new weapon. Whether in design, branding, or user experience, taste now defines how a product is perceived and

But nature is not simply dynamic, either. Some things change quickly, but they are nested within other things that change less quickly. Leaves change

In the fall of 1970, the Black feminist poet, teacher, and activist June Jordan traveled to Italy as a Rome Prize recipient in the category of Environ

Excerpt from Prose Architectures introduction by Renee Gladman: "Drawing extended my being in time; it made things slow. It quieted language. It produ

Renee Gladman is an artist and writer preoccupied with lines, crossings, thresholds, geographies, and syntaxes as they play out in the interstices of

Back then, technical prowess meant market dominance. Y Combinator, the spiritual center of Silicon Valley,1 crowned technical founders as the chosen o

Anthea often uses metaphors to develop and convey new conceptualizations. This approach is in keeping with studies about the significant role of metap

Fallow Periods as Fertile Ground In farming, land is left fallow to rest and regenerate, ensuring it remains fertile for future harvests. In a culture

One of the things I do around the edge of the portfolio is mess with the energy weight. Some of this is old habits — most of my option trading career

In investing, higher volatility usually equates to higher possible returns. In today’s world of online expression, we settle for lower expected value,

Briefly: a flow is any change over time, and a stock is the accumulation of flows. So your refrigerator's stock of food is fairly constant over time,

Financial systems are a continuous attempt to reshuffle assets towards the people who can manage them best or who are most tolerant of whatever their