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Doris Lessing on reading: “There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading on

The way to greater confidence is not to reassure ourselves of our own dignity; it’s to come to peace with our inevitable ridiculousness — Alain de Bot

When creators explode, curators become more valuable!

people think they want choices. but they prefer good defaults.

Early in my research career, a security guard told me something I have never forgotten: “When a bank has too much glass windows, I feel they won’t res

Financial institutions spend enormous effort measuring whether a customer is creditworthy. It has not occurred to most product teams that the custome

Excerpt from a 1976 interview of Anaïs Nin by Jeffrey Bailey of New Orleans Review:NORWe seem now to be swept by a tide of nostalgia, a series of tide

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"Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” ― William Morris

Compliment people more. Many people have trouble thinking of themselves as smart, or pretty, or kind, unless told by someone else. You can help them o

Most onboarding screens leak users, and it's not because a screen was ugly. They drop off at the seam between two screens, where one assumes a belief

Bought a book. It was awful. Didn't want it on my shelves, but couldn't throw it away, so it sat on a table near the door. Rushing to an appointment t

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"what i want is to live in a way that suits me" via korean film on the beach at night alone (2017) dir. hong sang-soo

Something Charlie Chaplin said: "Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind b

Zátopek never wanted to become a runner. When the management at the shoe factory where he was working elected him for a local race, he tried to refuse

I’ve never been a founder or a manager, and I don’t aspire to be, but I do want to build and create and grow things I’m proud of with people that care

Design talk: Too much consistency will ruin your app. Humans are naturally drawn to experiences that create a strong sense of place. This demands va

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This notion of time as an “economic resource” is exactly what vibing aims to break away from... time is not an empty thing we have to fill but a livin

Time, like the breath, is neither wasted nor spent. It simply is. The idea that we can waste time is rooted in the notion that time is something we ow

Regret is a time machine to the past. Worry is a time machine to the future. Gratitude is a time machine to the present.

BRIAN ENO So what you see when you watch someone surfing is they take control momentarily, to situate themselves on a wave, and then they surrender. T

When I'd scribbled the words "Unreasonable Hospitality" on that napkin, I hadn't the slightest idea how we'd put those words in to practice. But you d

One of the most dangerous feelings in the world is when you encounter a conceptual framework that maps onto your experience and it just seems to “clic

if you’re really good at what you do, you have the freedom to be who you really are