Luíza

Deeper work leads you to deeper meaning leads you to deeper fulfillment.

If you want to do your life’s work, do it slow.

The value of human thinking is going down. You probably knew this. The corollary is rarely mentioned: the value of a human eyeball is going up, because there are only so many of them and there are now infinite things that want to be looked at.

Creation used to be the scarce thing, the filter. Now attention is. Most of us are on the wrong side of... See more

Regardless of whether something is made with analogue tools, it rarely stays analogue for long. An ink drawing quickly becomes a jpg, and that jpg is easily dropped onto a digital platform. From that moment on, an ink drawing and something made in Procreate are equally reproducible, alterable, and detached from the conditions of their making. As... See more

A great writer mimicking, on the page, the dynamic energy of human thought is as about as close as we can get to modeling pure empathy.

Here is the mathematical logic of the spirit: If love is the quality of attention we pay something other than ourselves and hate is the veil of not understanding ourselves, then loving the world more — the other word for which is kindness — is largely a matter of deepening our awareness and sharpening our attention on both sides of the skin that... See more

The artist is not a preacher, nor a savior, but simply someone brave enough to burn in their own fire until what remains may light the way for others.

The “free market” is a fucking con . When you or I run out of money, our things are taken from us, we receive increasingly-panicked letters, we get phone calls and texts and emails and demands, we are told that all will be lost if we don’t “work it out,” because the financial system is not about an exchange of value but whether or not you can enter... See more