Michael Schreiber
@schreibrations
Michael Schreiber
Experts and specialists are important contributors to most sustainability projects, but we also need integrators and generalists who can help to put the contribution of each discipline into systemic relationships and help to contextualize the contributions made by the specialists.
The whole is more than the sum of its parts
To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.
Bill Watterson • SOME THOUGHTS ON THE REAL WORLD BY ONE WHO GLIMPSED IT AND FLED
Individuality makes low-output products all the more attractive…
the furniture makers became more skillful as they had to tackle timber of uneven quality. If you only work with the same material, your skills deteriorate. If you use material that is difficult to deal with, it improves your skills. For mass production, it is essential that material is
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Phil Jackson • Eleven Rings
My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned to myself for each one of my undertakings. I shall go even further: my freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes
... See moreScott Belsky • Making Ideas Happen
I could see that the Wasichus did not care for each other the way our people did before the nation’s hoop was broken. They would take everything from each other if they could, and so there were some who had more of everything than they could use, while crowds of people had nothing at all and maybe were starving. They had forgotten that the earth
... See moreJohn G. Neihardt • Black Elk Speaks
Steve Jobs once said, “Real artists ship.”
