Phillip Lombardino
@philbardino
Phillip Lombardino
A writing example: when I look back in my notes I realize so much of what I write about today I was ruminating about 2-3 years ago. I always knew what I was going to say. I just didn’t have the tools, I didn’t have the maturity, I didn’t have the language or sensitivity to beauty to recognize what that was. So much of what I learned was latent, une... See more
Nix 🕊 • things that take time
When you write online, there are strong incentives to write prose that is tightly packed with insights and fastmoving and a little intense—to catch and hold attention. That can feel limiting. I wonder what is the slowest, calmest piece I could write that would still work?
Henrik Karlssonsubstack.comhome isn’t something you find or inherit. It’s something you build, piece by piece, when you stop chasing the next better version of your life.
One cannot teach this kind of thing. I can’t just tell you to stop chasing the next better version of your life, or pursuing the next girl, the better job, the bigger house—or perhaps digital nomading your w... See more
Barcelona was supposed to be temporary
My favorite age was 50-65 or so, because I still had physical and mental strengths that were not so diminished. This was undoubtedly helped by having spent 20 years editing a series of fitness books—stretching, running, and weight lifting—and hanging out with world-class athletes. I was a competitive runner for over 20 years, did triathlons, paddle... See more
Inspo for living
Think like a gardener, not an architect: design beginnings, not endings.
Unfinished = fertile
“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm”
―Winston Churchill
The role of the designer or artist is, in many ways, to ask, "Why does it have to be like this?"
Why can’t we fill urban spaces with drought resistant native plants?
By his forties, a man has usually accomplished something in life. And is less tyrannized by his ambitions. He can then turn his attention inward.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
—Marcel Proust
—Marcel Proust