Raymond Nakamura
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Raymond Nakamura
• Use prompts to generate combinations. Pick two random ideas and ask: How do these differ? How do they overlap? How could they connect? Most attempts will go nowhere. The magic happens in the 10% that surprise you.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
When You May Have Found Your Twin on Instagram 😂🧘🏻♀️NAMASTE to fellow yogis out there with a sense of humor and being perfectly imperfect. You don’t have to know all the names for yoga poses in Sanskrit (asanas 😉); or be able to put your foot behind your head; or only eat leafy vegetables; or have self doubt because you can’t remember everybod... See more
instagram.comOn Overthink, mention concern of Socrates that writing would lead to decline of memory, considered an important skill.
"In science if you know what you are doing you should not be doing it.
In engineering if you do not know what you are doing you should not be doing it."
— Richard Hamming
In engineering if you do not know what you are doing you should not be doing it."
— Richard Hamming
Chapter 4: Life in Post-War Japan
discovernikkei.org
This is a chapter of a longer series
The particularity of our problems can be made bearable only through the recognition of our universal humanity. We suffer uniquely, but we survive the same way.
cheryl strayed • Brave Enough
For I have a single definition of success: you look in the mirror every evening, and wonder if you disappoint the person you were at 18, right before the age when people start getting corrupted by life. Let him or her be the only judge; not your reputation, not your wealth, not your standing in the community, not the decorations on your lapel. If y... See more
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Commencement Address, American University in Beirut
How do you get from starting small to doing something great? By making successive versions. Great things are almost always made in successive versions. You start with something small and evolve it, and the final version is both cleverer and more ambitious than anything you could have planned.
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw