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treat people like they are too complex to fit in your head (link in next tweet) https://t.co/n4tiWEMoUV
Anything you polish with attention will become a mirror.
The Search for Meaning Cast in Clay: 19 Years of The Marginalian (born on this day in 2006) in 19 Ceramic Sentences (and a raffle)
It is hard enough for a human being to attain such purity of being, harder still to share it with another. In a passage that to me is the purest, most exalted measure of love — love of another, love of life — she writes:
Could two live that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is as... See more
Annie Dillard on how to live, Alain de Botton on friendship, and a Gnostic gospel of wholeness
Every meaningful encounter is a kind of enchantment — it comes unbidden and breaks without warning, leaving us transformed.
Annie Dillard on how to live, Alain de Botton on friendship, and a Gnostic gospel of wholeness
Richard Whittaker said this:
“Go deeper and weirder and make something that is so human and so strange that it can't be duplicated by an algorithm.”
“Go deeper and weirder and make something that is so human and so strange that it can't be duplicated by an algorithm.”
you’ve never had an original thought
theme: technology is repetitive
"If we are to be original thinkers, develop an honest style, write something sticky, that leaves a mark, we can't rely on imitation, or even competition. We can only rely on our own stunted, strange, and racing minds." — Stephanie Danler
- If you can train yourself to ask “is there a better way to do this?” at random intervals ten times a day, you will become unstoppable.
50 things I know
🥰Your feel good research of the day:
Gentle as a mother's touch: C-tactile touch promotes autonomic regulation in preterm infants by I Püschel, J Reichert, Y Friedrich, J Bergander, K Weidner, I Croy (2022)
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