Sanj
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I’m quaking in my boots, but I’m here.
Sanj
complexity : timeless beauty.
We need to redefine complexity because it’s seen as a thing to avoid instead of a thing to chase. Simplicity gets all the attention; and it frames complexity as a sin. I think we’re confusing complexity for convolution (complexity gone wrong). I’d argue that complexity is the holy grail.
Nature, art, and technology all
... See moreIt’s just the first paragraph that makes sense. The second one onwards is fluff.
This should follow from the excitingness rule. Obviously the most exciting story to write will be the one you want to read. The reason I mention this case explicitly is that so many people get it wrong. Instead of making what they want, they try to make what some imaginary, more sophisticated audience wants. And once you go down that route, you're... See more
This is the exact point I was trying to make - what's the point in creating for an imaginary exacting audience, especially when you can create for yourself instead.
Develop a habit of working on your own projects. Don't let "work" mean something other people tell you to do. If you do manage to do great work one day, it will probably be on a project of your own. It may be within some bigger project, but you'll be driving your part of it.
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
The way to figure out what to work on is by working. If you're not sure what to work on, guess. But pick something and get going. You'll probably guess wrong some of the time, but that's fine. It's good to know about multiple things; some of the biggest discoveries come from noticing connections between different fields.
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
Choosing to kickstart a podcast despite the weight of everything else that I’ve started in the past and abandoned… can’t say halfway, cause I don’t know where I was going with them and how far along I was on the journey. So. Yeah.
The popular Venn diagram in use today was actually never even part of Ikigai. It was created by a Spanish astrologist named Andres Zuzunaga. Marc Winn, an innovation consultant, then married the Venn diagram with the Japanese concept of Ikigai, and it just took off from there.
But where did Ikigai itself come from? The earliest attribution I could... See more
But where did Ikigai itself come from? The earliest attribution I could... See more
Ikigai Ruined My Life
Project-Based Existence in an Ikigai Life
Breaking the myth of Ikigai - SOURCE CHECK
The Internet Will End Soon…
youtube.comWe write entire essays in our heads while doing laundry, walking to the shop, or brushing our teeth — but the moment we sit down at a laptop, it’s like our brain unplugs itself from the wall.
Jessica Millssubstack.comOne reason per-project procrastination is so dangerous is that it usually camouflages itself as work. You're not just sitting around doing nothing; you're working industriously on something else. So per-project procrastination doesn't set off the alarms that per-day procrastination does. You're too busy to notice it.
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
Doing my “main work” has kept me from doing “my work”
Viewed with the chastened hindsight of adulthood, their seriousness shows its ridiculous side, but the longing that drives it is no joke. It’s a hunger not so much for knowledge as for experience of a particular kind. Two kinds, really: the specific experience of encountering a book or work of art and also the future experience, the state of... See more
A.O. SCOTT • How Susan Sontag Taught Me to Think
Begin what? Nobody quite knows. And yet, it makes perfect sense. The logic doesn’t work, but the emotional we all echo.