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- 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 morefrom Here for the Wrong Reasons — Are.na
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
... See morefrom Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
- Increasingly of the belief that most problems are cultural, not technological. Like Gus Speth said: “The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy – & to deal with these we need a spiritual and cultural transformation”
- "I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and pick up your pen and finish writing when you put down your pen again; a writer is always writing, seeing everything through a thin mist of words, fitting swift little descriptions to everything he sees, always noticing.
Just as I believ... See more - 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
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
In good hands There is a feeling I search for: being in good hands. It is the feeling I look to give and the feeling I look to receive. I know I am in good hands when I sense a cohesive point of view expressed with attention to detail. I can feel it almost instantly. In any medium. Music, film, fashion, architecture, writing, software. At a Japa... See more- Words are a lossy medium for describing rich, multidimensional ideas.
from Building a 21st century interface for science by Oliver Hunt