Salman Ansari
@salmanscribbles
embracing my inner polymath — writing, drawing, coding, playing
Salman Ansari
salman.io
Chesterton on why children ought to be told fairy tales https://t.co/Rqftr3oMeiChesterton on why children ought to be told fairy tales
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“One of the best pleasures in life is to read a book in total silence.”
Don’t break the promises you make to yourself
- Meanwhile, some of the most serious people I know do their serious thing gratis and make their loot somewhere else. My dad, whose photographs sit at the top of every Experimental History post, quit his job at the newspaper and went to work as a postal carrier instead. Why? As he puts it: “I could afford better lenses delivering mail than I could ta... See more
from Surely You Can Be Serious by Adam Mastroianni
While I do enjoy my work in startups, I sometimes think of it as “fundraising” for the creative work I do. The world doesn’t usually fund the things it needs most (art). So sometimes you have to find a way to fund it yourself.
- As John Lasseter likes to say, ‘our films don’t get finished, they just get released.’” – Pete Docter, Pixar (source)
from TWN Issue 15: Embracing a "Fractal Bud" in Knowledge
Reminds me of how I knew when my stories are done: There are always still problems, but you reach a point where fixing them will only create new ones.
“If dreams are the royal road to the unconscious mind … then what are the stories that we write?”
—Stephanie Carty, The Writing Mirror
“Resilience is the nature of living beings.” —Starhawk, The Earth Path
Don’t do any task in order to get it over with. Resolve to do each job in a relaxed way, with all your attention. Enjoy and be one with your work.
—Thích Nhất Hạnh, The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
- Information is little pieces of idea that you have. Your speed lists will probably consist mostly of information.
After you collect a bunch of information, you'll detect patterns and relationships. As you integrate ideas together, it becomes far greater than the sum of the individual pieces- it becomes knowledge .
What is Wisdom? I define it as kno... See morefrom Theory of Notebooks
