Matilda
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Matilda
I sense there is a shift happening where people are realizing that they are channeling an ambitious impulse - the desire to grow and evolve - into dumb goals. Rejecting legible ambitious might be the most ambitious thing you can do.... See more
A shift from legible ambition (my parents can easily brag about me) to illegible ambition (no one, including me know
Paul Millerd • Losing Yourself, Ambition, Writing, 40k Books, Surrender | #247
Tell me, what questions do you carry, that wouldn’t exist if you knew exactly what you were doing? (Hint: That’s where your next interesting thing lives)
Beth Kempton • Confessions of a Self-Help Author
Still, I think something more fundamental has been lost for all of us as social media has evolved. It’s harder to find the spark of discovery, or the sense that the Web offers an alternate world of possibilities. Instead of each forging our own idiosyncratic paths online, we are caught in the grooves that a few giant companies have carved for us al... See more
Kyle Chayka • Coming of Age at the Dawn of the Social Internet | The New Yorker
I have come to the conviction that if you cannot translate your thoughts into uneducated language, then your thoughts were confused. Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.
—C.S. Lewis
We are always telling stories, whether we realize it or not. We might as well get good at it. Good stories win people over. They provoke and inspire and inflame the human spirit. It’s a tremendous source of power.
visakan veerasamy • a matryoshka of possibilities
the publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
John Berger • Ways of Seeing (Penguin Modern Classics)
Build a world. Make your projects and work a vessel for self-expression. Make your software match your vibe. Make reading your book feel like it feels to talk with you. Customize, make it bespoke, put yourself into it instead of doing what you feel you should. This has all kinds of benefits (reducing burn out for instance) but especially helps with... See more