Renee De Four
@reneedefour
Renee De Four
You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.
Emily Temple • “Write a Sentence as Clean as a Bone” And Other Advice from James Baldwin
insouciance
“I want to remind you of something I've talked about before, which is when you sit down at your computer to get work done, to work on your business, I don't want you to work, I want you to play. In that first pocket of time, when you're most energized and you've practically just woken up, instead of using that optimal energy to look at your to-do
... See moreFrom The Magic is You: Michelle's Magical Productivity Hack, 3 Aug 2023
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-magic-is-you/id1468535575?i=1000652027809
And in a move that can only be described as digital self-flagellation, I'm manually importing my Readwise highlights. Why? Because I'm a masochist, obviously.
The Great Note-Taking App Shitshow
🌀 Agnes Martin - My Rabbit Hole of Exploration
This is where my journey with Agnes Martin begins - chapter 4, part 3 of A Simpler Life titled “voluntary poverty”.
The first time I read this, I was at a loss for words. How can someone live like this? I suppose a better question is, what did Agnes Martin realize or see that most of us don’t? Somehow, she was able to see that these fleeting forms of pleasure don’t bring happiness anyway, like Rupert (Spira) says.
Something else fulfilled her and it wasn’t to be found in acquiring material objects.
Personally, I know these things don’t bring happiness, certainly not in and of themselves. I’ve known this for years yet I still fall back into these cycles of materialistic consumption. I must pay more attention to the moment that my awareness shifts from the internal to external.
Project Kickoff Template - Goal Setting
notion.soOngoing website support for Squarespace & Webflow
fromcole.com
It’s not that sexy new PM tool. That’s a shiny object, distracting you from the real problem.
It starts with process and people, and you support that with tools. The simpler, the better.
It starts with process and people, and you support that with tools. The simpler, the better.
🌺 I'm a designer by academic background, a teacher by chance, a writer by visceral need, and an independent (re)searcher by natural curiosity.