linda
@linda
chasing curiosities with my cat
linda
lindavinod.com
And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns… that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn’t have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale… that things had become too familiar and I might have to disorient myself.
-Bob Dylan
i want to deoptimize my brain. make it slower, get distracted. always existing on the fringe and whatever comes out is something outside of the objectives of this process at all. as if my processes will exist to alleviate the anxiety of having an objective at all
Plexus
If you produce ideas, don’t let the validated crowd out the emerging. If you curate ideas, don’t be beholden to consensus and algorithms. And if you consume ideas, gravitate toward what you don’t yet understand instead of going all-in on the ones you already do. Because otherwise — it’s sequels all the way down.
Anu • Franchise Thinking
If you want people’s respect, you have to have something real to offer them. Get really good at a specific skill. Be a genuinely kind person. Learn new things and become more interesting. Work on yourself rather than trying to navigate social ladders.
Popularity is transient
It is the goal of the new technologist to increase the “ capability landscape” , thus increasing the individual’s potential for greatness. There have been people that were born and died within a time period without access to / invention of the tool they are meant for. How many Mozart’s died before the invention of the Harpsichord? Our job is to... See more
Reggie James • Product Lost by @hipcityreg | Reggie James | Substack
how can i feel free to tinker with my website without feeling like it's supposed to be my main public-facing thing and should therefore contain all the proper public-facing things and be well structured and well maintained and not in a constant state of half-brokenness?