Mickey Patel
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Mickey Patel
It is a mad world, completely confused, in which the communist is fighting the capitalist, the socialist is resisting both, and everybody is against somebody, struggling to arrive at a safe place, a position of power or comfort.
Krishnamurti Foundation India • Think on These Things
This is how I feel about culture. We’re so surrounded by it that it’s impossible to see. Many things we think are true are really just our local culture. We can’t see it until we get outside of it.
Hell_Yeah_or_No • Sivers
read this when the mind is loud
We're unable to see culture until we are outside of it.
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Human expression was perfected into pithy thought-capsules (Twitter, LinkedIn), glamour shots (Instagram), and performative soundbites (TikTok), all perfect carriers for human emotions and — most importantly — ADVERTISING, which we were also now expected to do, newly equipped with our “personal brands.”
The dominance of these formats and mindset... See more
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Yancey Strickler • Formulary for New Media
While other people have one idea that they think might work, you will have thousands you can prove didn’t work, and one you couldn’t make fail.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Interesting. The texture of creativity is the same. There will be something that means more than others forms.
#visualmetaphor
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Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly.
Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.
Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.
I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig.
Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me.
When it
Tina Roth Eisenberg • Learn To Do Everything Lightly
The world of news is noisy, because they have to hype it. They try to get you to pay attention to something that’s not actually important. They create a false sense of urgency, social status, fear, shock, or any tricks possible to manipulate your psychological triggers, and ultimately help them profit. By contrast, the truly important things are
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make art not content and playing in decades
The most important things are quiet and free because people cant profit from them, they gift them and profit from donations.
But busyness has a way of stealing creativity from you. Generative work, like art and writing, requires long periods of nothingness: it’s only in that wide empty space that ideas emerge. Long runs, hot showers, commutes that don’t involve harried Slack messages and listening to podcasts at 2x speed. Sitting at the edge of a dock, listening to the... See more
Jasmine Sun • the scenic route
Indigenous storytelling traditions know that the power of a story isn't in its moral or message but in the way it creates a space where meaning can emerge.
compression culture is making you stupid and uninteresting
Man’s greatest fear is his fear of HIMSELF.
Kapil Gupta • Atmamun
This is the ultimate truth