I have learned so many things from music about writing. I think there are three important elements: rhythm, harmony, and free improvisation. I learned these things from music, not from literature. And when I started to write, I tried to write as though I were playing music.

I’m often surprised by how receptive people are.

Walking lets you read the world — and much like the slow, contemplative mental processes involved in reading a book, the pace with which one moves through the world while walking allows for a different, deliberative kind of seeing . You notice more. You think more.

Caminante, son tus huellas

el camino y nada más;

Caminante, no hay camino,

se hace camino al andar.

Al andar se hace el camino,

y al volver la vista atrás

se ve la senda que nunca

se ha de volver a pisar.

Caminante, no hay camino

sino estelas en la mar.

“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”

— Maya Angelou

SANTIAGO

The road seen, then not seen, the hillside hiding

then revealing the way you should take, the road

dropping away from you as if leaving you to walk

on thin air, then catching you, holding you up,

when you thought you would fall, and the way

forward always in the end the way that you followed,

the way that carried you into your future, that broug... See more

you don’t want to create so much status pressure that you make status maximizing decisions instead of product maximizing ones.

“I am convinced that most people do not grow up. We find parking spaces and honor our credit cards. We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magno... See more

cultivating an appreciation of uniqueness, rather than preference