Renee De Four
@reneedefour
Renee De Four
Cut a chrysalis open and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterflyā¦ No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.
ā Pat Barker
ā Pat Barker
The best marketing comes from you simply making your art and sharing it. In ways that light you up and provide value to other people. Thereās no need for sleazy tactics. Sharing our art, sharing our values and philosophy and stories, can be PART of our art.
I'm returning to Substack
What am I an expert in? What can I become an expert in?
Recent a-ha moment: Iām an expert at being myself. Iāve spent so much time searching for my āthingā, my craft to master. After all writers having writing, artists have drawing and painting, musicians have songwriting and learning their instrument - what do I have? I have me, my own unique blend of things. A Being to explore.
Maybe I donāt have one craft to master this time around. Maybe I just need to express me as authentically and unhindered as possible.
Bernard Stiegler - culture as the heart of a new economical and industrial development
youtube.comšŗ Culture is not your friend
This isā¦concerning to say the least.
Stiegler mentions Adorno here, whom I made a note about in Capacities last week.
Rabbit hole start: yctct
I usually go to the mall to perform a kind of an anthropological expedition once a year and I see nothing there which interests me.
Jacob Lund Fisker ā¢ Ā» How I live on $7,000 per year Early Retirement Extreme: ā a combination of simple living, anticonsumerism, DIY ethics, self-reliance, resilience, and applied capitalism
Personal Knowledge Management Workflow for a Deeper Life ā as a Computer Scientist
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When we buy a product, we essentially āhireā it to help us do a job. If it does the job well, the next time weāre confronted with the same job, we tend to hire that product again. And if it does a crummy job, we āfireā it and look for an alternative. (Weāre using the word āproductā here as shorthand for any solution that companies can sell
Yes to this except Iām definitely enjoying a variety of food!
Source: How to survive the modern world - The school of life