Sindhu Shivaprasad
@sindhusprasad
content designer and strategist by profession. writing about agentic ways of living on readkindredspirits.com. digital gardening at sindhu.live
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I evoke the term 'handmade web' to suggest slowness and smallness as forms of resistance. In today's highly commercialised web of multinational corporations, proprietary applications, read-only devices, search algorithms, Content Management Systems, WYSIWYG editors, and digital publishers it becomes an increasingly radical act to hand-code and... See more
J. R. Carpenter • J. R. CARPENTER || a Handmade Web
Ad legend Bill Bernbach letter on creativity, written in 1947:
Dear ________:
Our agency is getting big. That’s something to be happy about. But it’s something to worry about, too, and I don’t mind telling you I’m damned worried. I’m worried that we’re going to fall into the trap of bigness, that we’re going to worship techniques instead of
... See moreBelieve me, it's the mark of a great man, and one rising above human weakness, to allow no part of his time to be skimmed off. Accordingly, such a person's life is extremely long because he's kept available for himself the whole of whatever amount of time he had. None of it lay fallow and uncultivated, and none of it was under another's control;... See more
Seneca • Seneca On The Shortness Of Life : Seneca : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
when someone tells me to keep writing, it feels like a command to keep living.
Sindhu Shivaprasad • on not disappointing myself
purpose and
“ Before you make an offer to someone, think about whether you’d like to have 10 times as many people like them in your company. ”
9 most useful piece of advice I’ve received
Life and
Regrets are resolutions, and 27 other lessons I've learnt at 27 — sindhu.live
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Personal Growth and
"Many, if not most, inherently human triumphs are invisible, unsexy, and deeply personal. Inner work is impossible to describe to others and almost always goes unrewarded because it is not monumental in the conventional sense."
Men are thrifty in guarding their private property, but as soon as it comes to wasting time, they are most extravagant with the one commodity for which it's respectable to be greedy.