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I aspire to Isak Dinesen’s way: work a little every day, without hope and without despair. What a way to live! To make! To be!
Marketing is about making soulful bets. If you’re not purchasing cosmic lottery tickets somewhere you’ll never rise above the noise.
- — Grandma, how to do deal with pain? — With your hands, honey. If you do it with your mind in place to relieve the pain, it becomes even harder. — With our hands grandma? — Yes. Our hands are the antennae of our soul. If you move them by weaving, cooking, painting, playing, or sinking them into the ground, you send signals of care to the d... See more
“Some things can become true merely because we believe in them–that pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. When modern economists assumed that people are innately selfish, they advocated policies that fostered self-serving behavior. When politicians convinced themselves that politics is a cynical game, that’s exactly what it became.”
― via Ru
... See moreThe greatest minds are not products of thinking, but miracles in feeling
“I think that may be the highest purpose of any work of art, to inspire someone else to save themselves through art. Creating creates creators.”
― Jeff Tweedy, Let's Go (So We Can Get Back)
What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.” — Jorge Luis Borges
- Great user interview questions: 1. What are some alternatives to our product you've used or considered? 2. What's a problem that our product has helped you solve recently? -I have all these ideas to write but I want them in one place to draft this article. 3. What is the job that our product does for you? 4. What's a feature that keeps you usin... See more
this quote by Richard Feynman sums up why I keep a Sublime library. Cards are like tricks. Every now and then you see them with fresh eyes and something clicks and it reminds me why this practice is vital:
"You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind ... Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result,
... See more- A great new word: Pronoia Pronoia: the belief that the universe is conspiring in your favour – the opposite of paranoia.