Lani Assaf

Vintage Toucan lamp designed by H.T Huang (1980’s) https://t.co/Wd8Xx6oJap

Then everything changed. The Industrial Revolution gave rise to a new bourgeois class that, when not reeling from the latest market crash, had time and money to burn.

Middle-class leisure, unlike the aristocratic kind that greeted one at birth, required shifting gears, from a full-steam-ahead search for one’s place in the world to the relative stag... See more

And when I’m dealing with someone who keeps pushing me to reach some predetermined conclusion, like it’s not just uncomfortable but it’s aggravating for them to have to stay in some exploratory nowhere land with me, I usually don’t end up investing as much in that relationship. I prefer conversations that spin out and remain open ended. I like peop... See more

I have noticed that when all the lights are on, people tend to talk about what they are doing – their outer lives. Sitting round in candlelight or firelight, people start to talk about how they are feeling – their inner lives. They speak subjectively, they argue less, there are longer pauses.

To sit alone without any electric light is curiously crea... See more

You have a brand (e.g. perceptions, associations, a reputation) whether you’re building it with intention or not.

No one benefits from you scrolling on your phone and feeling sad and then going to Starbucks.

The antidote is figuring out what you care about, what you're good at, and what you like doing that can make the world a little bit better.

Then, really do that thing.

You can’t do everything, but there are a few things you can do really well. You have to

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some people, unable or unwilling to replace what they have lost, simply learn to live with the absence, with the empty space where belief once was. they carry it like a phantom limb, something once vital that still aches despite its disappearance. they may no longer kneel in prayer, but they still move through the world as though waiting for an ans... See more