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- The power of qualitative research is its magical ability to generate description. Where quantitative measures, qualitative describes the qualities of the human experience
from The Question of Why by Peter Spear
- Community is the currency of the new internet and memberships is how you’ll get paid.
from Tweet by GREG ISENBERG
communities dying, memberships thriving is a thought worth considering.
- “I don’t want anything in there,” Angelou said, when elaborating on her spartan hotel habit. “I go into the room and I feel as if all my beliefs are suspended. Nothing holds me to anything.” The home is filled with the familiar, and the familiar snares our attention, destabilizing the subtle neuronal dance required to think clearly.
from What if Remote Work Didn’t Mean Working From Home? | the New Yorker by Cal Newport
Maya Angelou would rent hotel rooms to write, asking the staff to remove all artwork from the walls and enter each day only to empty the wastebaskets. She’d arrive at six-thirty in the morning, with a Bible, a yellow pad, and a bottle of sherry. No writing desk was necessary; she’d instead work lying across the bed - Everyone and anyone can dance, because dancing is not only about performing. Dance is not even about being together, you can dance alone. Dance is not about dancing to music, you can dance in silence. So of course everybody can dance — and not only can, should .
from Ohad Naharin - The Talks by Emma Robertson
- innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.
from On Self-Respect: Joan Didion’s 1961 Essay From the Pages of Vogue by Joan Didion
Joan Didion: On Self-Respect, 1961 - On trusting your own process
from On trusting your own process
- Therefore, creativity does not happen inside people’s heads, but in the interaction between a person’s thoughts and a sociocultural context. It is a systemic rather than an individual phenomenon.
from Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- what if the world that tried to tame us just forgot its own wild magic. And perhaps some of us; some brave, sensitive, fluttering, gentle rebels and poetic liberators are here to remind the world of what it once knew?