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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Writing increases your rate of revelation. This is true irrespective of the subject because writing is a process of reflection, assertion, and iteration.
Writing clarifies your own ideas. Writing begets new ideas too. Writing lets you explore ideas in depth even if you won’t have time to act on them all. Writing shows people how you think and lets... See more
Writing clarifies your own ideas. Writing begets new ideas too. Writing lets you explore ideas in depth even if you won’t have time to act on them all. Writing shows people how you think and lets... See more
Anu • Writer-Builders
Today’s huge levels of uncertainty – climate change, inflation, the nigh-impossibility of shared societal goals, the rampant polarisation making political moderation very difficult – have truly brought out the very worst in us. Yet if uncertainty is a feature of the world, and not just a story about the limits of human knowing, then we’d better
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Seneca On The Shortness Of Life : Seneca : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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Questions are also indications of directions of curiosity. They remind me of desire paths : pathways in the grass that emerge organically from people's natural patterns of movement instead of prescribed routes. They’re such a wonderfully human example of how we like to follow impulse and intuition to find the most direct (or appealing way) to get... See more
Sindhu Shivaprasad • Questions Are Desire Paths of Curiosity
luck is the echo of effort
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Quantum mechanics tells us that within materialism – the idea that nothing exists except matter and its movements – there are uncertainties that do not derive from our ignorance but are fundamental to matter and the laws that govern it. In this view, uncertainty is an uneradicable feature of our physical world.
Psyche • Uncertainty Isn’t a Human Flaw, It’s a Feature of the World
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 moreThe best time to use this tool is when you run into a conflict that seems impossible to resolve by accepting the proposal of either side. This can be a conflict with others but also internal. It can be professional or personal.
Conflict Resolution Diagram
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