Philip Soriano
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Philip Soriano
dads’ greater tendency to take their children to parks or playgrounds, or teach them by doing, such as being a “sous-chef” with dad in the kitchen. They also missed the games dads tend to create to make otherwise boring activities fun—such as turning a shopping cart into a basketball hoop and toilet paper into a ball.
John Gray PhD • The Boy Crisis
I often think about how the internet is a collective consciousness for humanity and how the first 30 years of the internet didn’t create products with that context in mind and lost the reverence of that sacredness. The products created didn’t have that aspiration in mind and simply wanted to monetize and grow. Sublime is the first product in a long
... See moreA quote from Japanese author and Buddhist monk Yoshida Kenko way back in 1330(!) on the value of reading books:
“It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.”
“It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: On saying no, the importance of focus, and reading books
In Alan Bennett’s The History Boys, the profoundly human (i.e., imperfect) teacher, Hector, reminds his students that “The best moments in reading are when you come across something—a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things—that you’d thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you’ve never met,... See more
During roughhousing, dads and kids are typically 100 percent energized, laughing, spontaneous, and, yes, silly. The dads were almost always able to distinguish between their son or daughter being excited-scared and scared-scared. When the dad picked up any sense of his son or daughter being scared-scared, he backed off.
John Gray PhD • The Boy Crisis
a painting that suggests is usually more engaging than one that tells. Everyone makes up their own story about the Mona Lisa.
Paul Graham • Taste for Makers
“Those who love us plan for our beginning. Those we love need a plan for our ending.” —April Koontz, MSW, Founder, Daughters Unite