Kasturi Kiri
@shoesatthe_door
Kasturi Kiri
There’s a game I sometimes play at the museum: ‘what kind of painting am I today?’ Never, despite my best attempts, am I an angelic Botticelli. When hungover and weary, perhaps a Toulouse-Lautrec. When swaddled in loneliness, absolutely an Edward Hopper.
Michael Rance • 'You Can Live the Wrong Life'
wrong lives and mental healing
Roleplaying is a way to understand how you might truly feel
Building relationships between things is a form of authorship too.
Mindy Seu • On Gathering
Making connections between ideas (or curation) is a valid and robust form of creativity
“At least, I'm the kind of person who when it comes to, say, something like language or just communicating on a daily basis, I feel like I'm trying to put an ocean through a straw.”
― Björk
― Björk
Björk Quotes (Author of Stories for Kids Who Dare to Be Different)
Communicating is difficult
In the old system, the question is: Under which topic do I store this note? In the new system, the question is: In which context will I want to stumble upon it again? (Ahrens, 2017)
leananki.com • Zettelkasten Method: How to Take Smart Notes
archival as lifestyle and organisation
Ideas aren’t static or finished. They are energy, waiting to be transformed by the context in which it presents itself.
You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results...Your outcomes are a lagging measure of your habits.3
Celine Nguyen • in praise of writing on the internet
Outcomes/success often lags behind your daily actions… be patient
Projects have been filed, things are being read and re-read, the work seems to be going vaguely in the right direction. I should be happy, or at least satisfied! But I am not! The only thing that has defined this period is a vague, indiscriminate ennui that pervades everything. It’s like I’ve been pouring myself into a vessel that’s too small. Or t... See more
Michael Rance • 'You Can Live the Wrong Life'
You might not be pouring your energy into the right thing.