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A core reason was that it was illegible , it was hard to measure. Who knew the collective five or fifteen minute chunks of people’s days added up to so much? 1
We live in an incredibly complex world; the territory is too vast for anyone to hold in their head and so we create maps, simplifications of reality to help us function.
However, sometimes a... See more
We live in an incredibly complex world; the territory is too vast for anyone to hold in their head and so we create maps, simplifications of reality to help us function.
However, sometimes a... See more
taylorpearson.me • The Illegible Margin: Profiting From the Gap Between the Map and the Territory
You can also find the golden thread of your own personal myth. We can also test and cultivate this mythic resonance within our own lives. Holocaust survivor and renowned value investor Arnold Van Den Berg has discussed how resonant quotes are a way that he believed his unconscious communicated its values to him.9 Places your attention is drawn to... See more
Tom Morgan • "Accelerating Wisdom" Episode 5: Myth's Hidden Wisdom
- Max Ehrmann
Desiderata
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Max Ehrmann's "Desiderata"
Worthy of particular emphasis is Weizman’s reference to a technique called “walking through walls”:
Furthermore, soldiers used none of the streets, roads, alleys, or courtyards that constitute the syntax of the city, and none of the external doors, internal stairwells, and windows that constitute the order of buildings, but rather moved horizontally... See more
Geoff Manaugh • Nakatomi Space
I’ve recently been exploring the metaphor of work as trace – that it isn’t so much about what we put out into the world as how we put it out; that the thing we really ought to care about, the thing that ultimately matters, is the intention from which the work emerges. The rest is all mirror, representation, resemblance.
Rebecca • [BIFFS vol. 2] Work as trace
But I also love the way that buildings are — they’re these huge structures that we have accepted as the places we go in to get what we need, or to sleep, or to work, or whatever. They’re also these huge towering structures. I think of them as if they’re creatures; they’re other kinds of beings. Sometimes we don’t even touch them. I’m interested in... See more
Drew Zeiba • CITY WRITER: Interview with Visual Poet Renee Gladman
Renee Gladman
Again, I feel similar to how Popova describes herself:
“A reader who writes.”
Interestingly, reading, thinking, and writing are all intertwined. Popova says:
“It’s hard to separate the reading and research part of the process from the writing and synthesis one. The osmosis of the two is where the magic happens – that place where you pull existing... See more
“A reader who writes.”
Interestingly, reading, thinking, and writing are all intertwined. Popova says:
“It’s hard to separate the reading and research part of the process from the writing and synthesis one. The osmosis of the two is where the magic happens – that place where you pull existing... See more