Manuela Chaves Wolynec
@mcwolynec
Manuela Chaves Wolynec
@mcwolynec
One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.
Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.
... See moreAmar requer uma grande coragem, a coragem de ser humilde.
“Nothing is permanent and all suffering results from our delusions of permanence.”
-Octavia Butler
this is also why this kind of self help content is so inherently heterosexual, it can often focus on propagar gender roles within romantic connections that is first of all, a construct even in het relashionships and even more useless and censeless when it comes to queer relashionships
The whole of the ancient, master teachings on suffering come down to this: Suffering is the notion “This isn’t it,” and it’s variants such as, “I can’t bear this, it shouldn’t be happening,” and “I have to know how this will turn out” and “What if it gets worse?”
Freedom, waking up and fearlessness come down to the simplicity of, “Wait a minute,
... See moreyess, it’s not that you shouldn’t consume this content but it’s that you should do so mindfully and critically, because there is good advice and there is also harmful advice, learn to tell them apart
Cringe tolerance describes the psychological capacity to act, despite the certainty that others will judge your work as amateurish, naive, or embarrassing. It's the ability to post your first YouTube video knowing it will be awkward, to launch your website despite its obvious design flaws, to share your writing before it reaches professional
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