“I don’t think we talk enough about the in betweens. The part when you know you want to change something but don’t yet know how, don’t yet feel strong enough, don’t yet know what your first step is. So to the people in the in betweens, don’t be disheartened, don’t give up. You’ve done the hard part. Now just take it one small step at a time.
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Scott Belsky Talk at South Park Commons

• Often designs from frustration 

• Right now, greater skill is being brought by compute and developing a democratization of many things (code, design, etc.). Because of this, taste will probably be the most important skill 

• Taste is derived from culture and overlap of industries 

• Because of that

cities need more cozy enchanting late night cafes to work & read from til 1am

If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.

Richard Rohr

This points to the truth that the world view we operate from affects everything from how we feel to how well we process information to how we behave.

The mode we tend to live from, hostile or friendly, survive or thrive, is a reflection of which brain circuits have been most consistently recruited over a person's live, starting in childhood. Childr

This rant via Shalom Auslander

I was thinking about sex the other day because I was having a really depressing day, and a dead body had been found by the pier, and as I was taking my son to school and waiting at a traffic light, a homeless man in a mad fury began circling my car, shouting and spitting, and it felt like forever before the light turne

The antidote to envy is one's own work. Always one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the doing of it… [T]he work itself. It drives the spooks away.

-Bonnie Friedman

Building meaning is what makes us happy.

- Katherine Morgan Schafler

How can we live offline?