Robin Harford
- Music is all around.
It is we who turn away.
John Cagefrom Emma Welton – musician
- “There is this distinction, in Western culture, between human and everything else. There’s that hierarchy – we are constantly interacting with the world around us, yet not questioning what nature means. Over 50% of us is bacteria and we’re constantly in flow: whether it’s the food we eat, or the bacteria within us, or the clothes we’re wearing”
from How Alice Boyd Uses Bio-Sonification To Turn Plants Into Music
- Wanderlust
Rebecca Solnit
Walking itself has not changed the world, but walking together has been a rite, tool and reinforcement of the civil society that can stand up to violence, to fear, and to repression.from Daily Review | Readwise
- MoneyLove
Jerry Gillies
Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not.from Daily Review | Readwise
- How to Take Smart Notes in Obsidian
Joshua Duffney
Use literature notes to capture what you don’t want to forget or what you might use in your own thinking. Be very selective and keep the notes short. Record the bibliographic details as you take the notes. Then archive the literature note in the reference folder.from Daily Review | Readwise
- How to Take Smart Notes in Obsidian
Joshua Duffney
Abstraction is the process of taking an idea from its original text and making it usable in a general sense without the support of added context. To abstract an idea you rewrite it in your own words as if you’re writing for someone else who doesn’t have the context of its source.from Daily Review | Readwise
- If you want to progress faster, write concise explanations. Explain ideas in simple terms, strongly and clearly, so that they can be rebutted, remixed, reworked — or built upon.
from Concise explanations accelerate progress
- “Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don’t try to figure anything out. Don’t try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest” Tilopa
from Coot Chick and Swan Cygnets
- "When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs as you do, you can relax a little and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock—to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind, you draw large and startling figures."
—Flannery O'Conno... See more