Kiersten

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Attachment to a singular narrative is like pinning an insect to a board and measuring it: if you aren’t watching it in flight, you’re missing the point.
from Right Story, Wrong Story by Tyson Yunkaporta
something that we own and get to control seems to make life worse. Inevitably, we become obsessed with “using it well,” whereupon we discover an unfortunate truth: the more you focus on using time well, the more each day begins to feel like something you have to get through, en route to some calmer, better, more fulfilling point in the future, whic
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from Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
the brevity of life to be the defining problem of human existence: we’ve been granted the mental capacities to make almost infinitely ambitious plans, yet practically no time at all to put them into action.
from Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push... See more
from 3-2-1: The simple way to have a good day, why inspiration is unnecessary, playing small vs playing big
There's a great quote that Nick Saban said. He said that average players want to be left alone. Good players want to be coached, and great players want to be told the truth. Michael had a giant ego and a giant drive, but he would run up to the coach and tell me what I need to get better at.
from Passion & Pain by Patrick O'Shaughnessy
There isn‘t a clean way to get around the idea that personal expression is always at least in part performative. Expression is partly fun because it’s performative.

It’s also not like this type of behavior is a new thing. There has always been the type of person who is performative of their own interests or pursues their work because of the kind of ... See more
from Here for the Wrong Reasons — Are.na
Words are a lossy medium for describing rich, multidimensional ideas.
from Building a 21st century interface for science by Oliver Hunt
Reaching wide audiences requires all-terrain language, and the urgency of the present moment, amplified by chronological feeds, doesn’t allow for much stylistic variety. Efficiency is key — compressing as much information as possible to the least amount of words is the ideal of all communication.

While I do agree that many areas of interaction, like... See more
After many years of building and tens of millions of users, Notion now describes itself this way: “Every department’s work. In one tool.” You can almost feel their internal struggle with language—the search for the right words. How can you describe something that is genuinely novel? What happens when something is so fundamentally different th... See more
from "Disregard the Words" by Josh Miller

from Right Story, Wrong Story by Tyson Yunkaporta

from Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

from Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

from 3-2-1: The simple way to have a good day, why inspiration is unnecessary, playing small vs playing big

from Passion & Pain by Patrick O'Shaughnessy

from Here for the Wrong Reasons — Are.na

from Building a 21st century interface for science by Oliver Hunt

from "Disregard the Words" by Josh Miller