Bradley McDevitt
@soupbone
Archetypal Scholar, Leadership Development Coach, Theater Nerd, Clown
Bradley McDevitt
thearchetype.substack.com
- You’re not inactive because you lack motivation, you lack motivation because you’re inactive. You don't need to feel inspired to start creating, you need to start creating to feel inspired. Action creates traction. All you need is to start and the rest will inevitably follow.
Unbearable Creativity & Terrible Beauty
Tout bouge
“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of cont
... See more"If no art makes you feel anything, make your own art and feel something"
- Jenna Marbles (I think)
- cue for UX designers working on the development of new apps — anticipate the consequences of your creations and instead of adding fuel to the fire of addiction, bear in mind the ethical principles of designing the user experience.
- “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
― Rabindranath Tagore The Worst 36 Hours For Democracy Since the 1930s, America on Dictatorship’s Brink, and Civilizational Risk
by the issue.
Required reading for politically minded . . . scratch that. Just read it. If you’re interested in avoiding the inevitable pogroms that will likely swallow each user on this platform.
- Paine rejected the idea that any man could be born to rule others, and he ridiculed the idea that an island should try to govern a continent. “Where…is the King of America?” Paine asked in Common Sense. “I’ll tell you Friend…so far as we approve of monarchy…in America THE LAW IS KING. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free count... See more
- Looking thus at the state of the country, I know of no better use to
which I can put this sacred day, I know of no higher duty resting upon me,
than to enforce my views and convictions, and especially to hold out to
reprobation, the short sighted and ill judged, and inefficient modes adopted
to suppress the rebels. The past may be dismissed with a sing... See moreFredrick Douglass’speech on the 4th of July, 1862
- “Freedom is never free. Anyone who has struggled to be free knows how much it costs.”