Sindhu Shivaprasad
@sindhusprasad
content designer and strategist by profession. writing about agentic ways of living on readkindredspirits.com. digital gardening at sindhu.live
Sindhu Shivaprasad
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- I think high-performing people generally fall into this trap: we obsess about the external world while neglecting our internal world.
from on not disappointing myself by Sindhu Shivaprasad
What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.
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 substance
... See more- 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 morefrom Writer-Builders by Anu
- I recognize the irony here of describing understanding through words, and you being the person that’s internalizing it as knowledge. But with that said, therein lies the value of writing. Writing is an attempt to share your lived experience with others, which makes you face the blind spots in your own thinking in real-time. When you write, it becom... See more
from Knowledge Is Not Understanding - More to That by moretothat.com
- when someone tells me to keep writing, it feels like a command to keep living.
from on not disappointing myself by Sindhu Shivaprasad
purpose and
“Every journey is a question of sorts, and the best journeys are the ones in which every question opens into deeper and more searching questions.”
— Pico Iyer, The Pilgrim’s Way on Waking UpLife and
- 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 s... See more
from Questions Are Desire Paths of Curiosity by Sindhu Shivaprasad