Molly Simpson
@spagmol
thinker, feeler, third-wheeler
collecting dots here, connecting them there ￬
Molly Simpson
spagmol.substack.com
Like a tree, creative work has seasons. Part of the work is to know which season you’re in, and act accordingly. In winter, “the tree looks dead, but we know it is beginning a very deep process, out of which will come spring and summer.”
Austin Kleon • Keep Going: a book by Austin Kleon
quote to support the introduction/framing?
Energy is only ever transferred, never destroyed.
... See moreYou are becoming the one who can sit in her cave and spin her stories; who can take only what is given; who is a friend to any stranger who comes near; who is willing to save her energy from fighting in order to tap into the much, much deeper and more fascinating spirit of allowing; who watches the sky with fading eyes in unattached curiosity about
storytelling is not just instinct but also compulsion. We crave order. We impose meaning. We freeze the shifting, uncertain nature of life into shapes we can survive.
Emma Pegg • The Science (and Seduction) of Product Storytelling
The activist and technologist Pia Mancini once told me about the emergence of a new word in Barcelona: yosotros — a combination of “I” (”yo”) and “We” (”nosotros”) that represents the collective I, the singular We. The term emerged through political movements, but its implications feel bigger. Could this represent a form of collective self? A new p... See more
The Post-Individual
Your DNA has never existed before in the history of the universe and never will again. Don’t play small.
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