Reza Saeedi
@reza
Reza Saeedi
Passion creates, addiction consumes.
Passion creates, addiction consumes.
– Gabor Maté
– Gabor Maté
Try to make something perfect and it will remain imperfect. Do it naturally and it is always perfect. Nature is perfect; effort is imperfect. So whenever you are doing something too much, you are destroying.
Osho • Creativity: Unleashing the Forces Within (Osho Insights for a New Way of Living)
I suspect the key to charisma is to like people. All politicians smile when they're working a crowd, but the really charismatic ones don't have to remember to smile. Their smiles are genuine, because they're enjoying themselves. If you look at photographs of Clinton in a crowd, time and again you see him stretching way out to reach people's hands--... See more
Paul Graham • What Charisma Is
And yet, in so much modern software today, you’re placed in a drab gray cubicle — anonymized and aggregated until you’re just a daily active user. For minimalism. For simplicity. For scale! But if our hope is to create software with feeling, it means inviting people in to craft it for themselves — to mold it to the contours of their unique lives an
... See moreThe Browser Company • Optimizing For Feelings
Interacting with highly charismatic people gives you a high because of the intensity of being seen (and it's rare to encounter people who can really see you because most people have too much going on in their heads). This altered state makes it hard to tell in the moment whether this person is good for you or not, and this can be even more confusin... See more
Carmen • People who demand nothing of you (or, notes on charismatic people)
being kind vs. being nice are two very different things. the kind friend tells you that you’ve got something stuck in your teeth. the nice friend pretends its not there and leaves you looking like a bozo all day.
tadzio dlugolecki • 29 reminders for 29 years
In the 1980s, a venture capitalist could truthfully say their investment was the difference between life or death for an important, generational technology company. Funding such companies, in this way, was absolutely a good quest. But today there are more people "helping the builders" than actually building, fighting one another in a zero-sum game
... See moreTrae Stephens • Choose Good Quests
