Philip Soriano
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Philip Soriano
If death is not immediate, but on the horizon, you start to have incredible dreams. You also, on some level, know you are about to die. You go through a grieving process. You evaluate where you spent your life. What you could have done differently, what you will do differently if you survive and when you do survive, the first thing you are thankful... See more
Cyan Banistertwitter.comreflections on near death experiences
How do I go from trying to have the "best" cards (collecting/curating) to creating something with them?
On bad days meta-writing keeps me disciplined, giving me a reason to put pen to paper. As such, my private meta-writing is probably the greatest aid to producing public writing that I have. My journals are full of pages that start with what I planned to eat during the day and ended with a fresh idea, or an outline for a prospective article.
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On Writing and Why write?
Where Are Young Art Collectors and Museum Donors?
nytimes.com
Where am I going with design? That's a hard question because none of us has the ability to understand our path until it's over.
On the Shoulders of Giants
A key measure of emotional intelligence is knowing that every virtue taken to its extreme becomes a vice. Fearlessness is courage taken to its extreme.
John Gray PhD • The Boy Crisis
I recognize the irony here of describing understanding through words, and you being the person that’s internalizing it as knowledge. But with that said, therein lies the value of writing. Writing is an attempt to share your lived experience with others, which makes you face the blind spots in your own thinking in real-time. When you write, it... See more
moretothat.com • Knowledge Is Not Understanding - More to That
Presumably, parents in the past cared as much about their kids' safety as parents today do. But they took far fewer precautions than parents today, and exerted far fewer controls over kids' behavior. Perhaps they thought it was important that children learn to take risks in order to develop courage. Or perhaps they thought that getting into scrapes... See more
David Brooks • The Organization Kid
even when race, education, income, and other socioeconomic factors are equal, living without dad doubled a child’s chance of dropping out of high school.5