malakai imani
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malakai imani
im still in the depressed phase
The word selah (Hebrew: ) — “to pause, reflect, and feel meaning” — appears almost seventy times in the poetry of the Psalms. Grief by its nature is poetical, elegiac. And poetry, like grief, is subversive, unbridled, and disobedient. Poetry violates linguistic norms because it must. Poetry helps us feel. And when we allow ourselves to feel that wh
... See moreJoanne Cacciatore • Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief
Perhaps the simplest and most inclusive definition of grief is “unfinished hurt.”
The grief psychologist William Worden takes into account these questions by replacing stages with tasks of mourning. In his fourth task, the goal is to integrate the loss into your life and create an ongoing connection with the person who died while also finding a way to continue living.
Lori Gottlieb • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Progression:
Simple and wrong
Complicated and wrong
Complicated and right
Simple and right
A great story about simplicity from Akio Morita, the instigator of the Walkman project at Sony:
Engineers had the technology to add the recording function to the Walkman and it would’ve cost only 50 cents to a dollar per unit. Morita decided against it. He wanted the device to have one function, which it performs very well. Walkman should only play
again - there is no need to overcomplicate something. just focusing on one concept is good enough. and if it’s great - you will outshine everyone
I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. It demands the same skill, devotion, insight, and even inspiration as the disco... See more
this I feel like is a necessary approach to all life. make it so simple and easy that it’s obvious to myself or other people. while harder - it’s efficient and sustainable
Breaking through to a better idea by subtraction, rather than addition, is the most satisfying kind of breakthrough.
-Jason Fried