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The longer answer is: find whatever you’re most efficient at that you also enjoy doing, learn how to get even faster and better at it, and work with clients who are already making money and value your work. Then spend the rest of your time and energy making art until that makes enough money so that you can do less of the first thing. But you can... See more
Ana Wang • Is Everyone Succeeding Without Me?
The internet has fundamentally altered the conditions under which genuine self-expression can exist. The solution isn’t to perform authenticity harder, but to recognise and jealously guard the remaining places where real authenticity might still be possible: in unrecorded conversations, in private moments, in closed networks that haven’t yet been... See more
Eugene Healey • Gen Z and gen Alpha brought a raw, messy aesthetic to social media. Why does it feel as inauthentic as ever? | Eugene Healey
I'm a very proud thief and deployer of Stewart Brand's pace layers.
Stewart originally used the pace layer model to describe how civilizations hold together, fashion moves fast, nature moves slow, and the health of the whole system depends on that tension being respected.
The slow layers are load-bearing. The fast layers are adaptive. You need... See more
Stewart originally used the pace layer model to describe how civilizations hold together, fashion moves fast, nature moves slow, and the health of the whole system depends on that tension being respected.
The slow layers are load-bearing. The fast layers are adaptive. You need... See more
Rick Evans • Katie Dreke, Founder, DRKE
In the area of thought, there is the intellectual who discusses his or her personal problems as though they belong to someone else. In a state of total dissociation, this individual does not experience the emotional meaning of anything he or she says or hears; such an individual prefers to talk about psychology in general rather than his or her
... See moreNathaniel Branden • Honoring the Self: The Pyschology of Confidence and Respect
There is a new buzzword in marketing, advertising, and generally anything business-related in China, “活人感” (lit. sense of the living). It is a mix of brand personality and a pushback against the “dead internet theory”.
How Douyin brought livestream to Jingdezhen, China's Porcelain Capital
To sit with the discomfort of holding multiple truths in relationship is part of how we open our relationships to the ecology. To shift our understanding of relationships from mainstream expectations that freeze us in certain roles, means inviting in new ways of discerning trust and safety that can hold more complexity.
to practice relationship ecology
Marriage was an economic institution in which you were given a partnership for life in terms of children and social status and succession and companionship. But now we want our partner to still give us all these things, but in addition I want you to be my best friend and my trusted confidant and my passionate lover to boot, and we live twice as... See more
Aziz Ansari • Modern Romance
Who we fall in love with is ultimately a reflection of what we value individually and how we view ourselves. There’s no escaping yourself in dating. No matter who you’re sitting across from, the one constant you come up against is your own insecurities, your own unresolved issues, your own doubts and fears.