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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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 moreQuantum 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
Publish Something Online
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ambition and
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
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
Conviction is an extension of self-knowledge. It emerges from your experiences and prior conditions. To know that is to know yourself. Being someone with conviction is really just living with clarity, and everything else is downstream of this self-knowledge.
on not living a paper-thin life
"Just as my own voice is shaped and formed by the voices of others — Bakhtin taught me this — so others will appropriate for themselves and their purposes ideas they first heard in my voice."
Alan Jacobs • DNA – Snakes and Ladders
“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 Up
Life and