Sindhu Shivaprasad
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content designer and strategist by profession. writing about agentic ways of living on readkindredspirits.com. digital gardening at sindhu.live
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on not living a paper-thin life
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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 substance
... See more"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
The plight of all preoccupied people is wretched, but most wretched is the plight of those who labor under preoccupations that are not even their own, whose sleep schedule is regulated by somebody else's, who walk at somebody else's pace, and who are under instructions in that freest of all activities-loving and hating. If these people want to know... See more
Seneca • Seneca On The Shortness Of Life : Seneca : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Self Compassion and
“There are 2 types of decisions: 1-way door decisions and 2-way door decisions. Be involved with the former, but less and less in the latter.” 1-way door decisions cannot be reversed, and if a mistake is made there, you’ll have to live with it for a long while, whereas with 2-way door decisions you can always go back and change path.
9 most useful piece of advice I’ve received
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.
Seneca • Seneca On The Shortness Of Life : Seneca : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
ambition and