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- Rockefeller’s job wasn’t to drill wells, load trains, or move barrels. It was to make good decisions. And making decisions requires, more than anything, quiet time alone in your own head to think a problem through. Rockefeller’s product – his deliverable – wasn’t what he did with this hands, or even his words. It was what he figured out inside his ... See more
from Lazy Work, Good Work
Here’s a problem we don’t think about enough: Even as more professions look like Rockefeller’s – thought jobs that require quiet time to think a problem through – we’re stuck in the old world where a good employee is expected to labor, visibly and without interruption.
- I think that greatness is best described as “invisibility.” Great writing is invisible. It might take you a minute or two to get into the flow, but once you’re reading it, you’re flowing through it and don’t even realize you are reading words. Your mind is hallucinating the story for you, so seamlessly that it feels like you’re imagining it for you... See more
from Great Writing Is Invisible by Nat Eliason
- Explore the edge. Roam the edge of practices, where they permeate several trends and communities, creating gateways between worlds of ideas; push the boundaries of knowledge by connecting seemingly unrelated ideas; direct your curiosity towards questions that haven’t even been formulated yet.
from Liminal Creativity by Ness Labs
- The Invitation
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn’t interest me what planets are squar... See morefrom The Invitation, a poem by Oriah Mountain Dreamer by Esther Ekhart
beautiful poem
World building is the new web design Worlds make your brand unforgettable Bookmark this so you never forget it https://t.co/P29TWMQMR6- Where are the mystagogues? Writing is mystagogy. It is leading oneself, or others, into a great mystery. Their own lives are a mystery. It is a good place to start.
from Why I Write by Luke Burgis
- “Develop imagination. Throw away routine.” Harry Gordon Selfridge #ImaginationPrinciples to return to.
- What does an opportunity look like? Rarely is it as obvious as an invitation, but it can be. Rarely is it as direct as a new job, but it might be. An opportunity is a trojan horse. A knock, but not necessarily at your door. An opportunity might be akin to a found path. Not one you’ve prepared for, researched, or saved as a place on Google Maps. A p... See more
from Momo Magazine #63
Opportunity is hidden in the undiscovered paths.