The most human part of humanity is not our animal instincts nor our computer-like rationality, but our mutual social creation of meanings and values around arbitrary choices.

“You always have the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.”

-Marcus Aurelius

from Make your Stuff by Austin Kleon:

“it’s not enough to be good. In order to be found, you have to be findable.”

“If you want people to know about what you do and the things you care about, you have to share.”

“Make stuff you love and talk about stuff you love and you’ll attract people who love that kind of stuff. It’s that simple.”

“Teaching people

“Every time I read a great book I felt I was reading a kind of map, a treasure map, and the treasure I was being directed to was in actual fact myself. But each map was incomplete, and I would only locate the treasure if I read all the books, and so the process of finding my best self was an endless quest. And books themselves seemed to reflect thi

Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described.

Notes on Camp, Susan Sontag.