Sen LinYu

Our appetite for life is so big that living just one life doesn’t always feel like enough. We want to know what other people’s lives are like, and we want other people to live some of our lives, too.

Here at the Plane, we see layering as the technique for creating tension, surprise, tantalizing hints & reveals, pleasing juxtapositions, and assorted other textural & chromatic intrigue.

They call it conviction, or clarity, or say they’re “standing for something.”

But the harsh truth is, most of the time, it’s just a mind that has stopped evolving.

It’s hard to describe how quickly this drains the life out of someone, but you know it when you feel it. The vibe changes because the conversation stops being a shared space where ideas... See more

If suffering is the magnitude of our resistance to reality, and if change is the fundamental constant of reality, then our resistance to change is our self-directed instrument of suffering.

In mathematics, a fractal exhibits perfect self-similarity everywhere, but in nature, as in art, there is no perfection.

noticing when you’re pattern-matching someone into a category instead of actually hearing what they’re saying. Or catching yourself mid-assumption and asking a question instead.

But busyness has a way of stealing creativity from you. Generative work, like art and writing, requires long periods of nothingness: it’s only in that wide empty space that ideas emerge. Long runs, hot showers, commutes that don’t involve harried Slack messages and listening to podcasts at 2x speed. Sitting at the edge of a dock, listening to the... See more