Natasha Wiscombe
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@natashawiscombe1
The good life is one inspired by love
and guided by knowledge.
(Bertrand Russell)
He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
– Jean-Luc Godard
Bees don't waste their time explaining to flies that honey is better than shit
“You can’t talk butterfly language with caterpillar people.”
Trish Deseine
“I know a lot of people who make things who don’t stand proudly by their stuff, I don’t know if they’re too cool or they don’t want to look thirsty, but they’ll put a song out once on their stories — and that’s it.
You went through something. You figured something out in a structured format. You recorded it. Not just one take. Parts and parts.
Optimize for legacy, not empire. Empires die because they’re alone, legacies live because they involve others.
-OH, on building teams and brand communities
‘The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.’ by Karen Blixen, writing as Isak Dinesen
It is rare for people to come into themselves if no one is excited and curious about their core, their potential. We need someone who gives us space to unfold.
“Look,” said Tyrena. “In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.”
- Hyperion by Dan Simmons
One's ability to articulate an idea always lags behind the understanding of the idea, and the understanding of an idea often lags behind the embodiment in which it is first given life. It can take a surprising amount of time to come to understand what a prototype is trying to "say", and longer still to say it oneself.
-Bret Victor