Steyn Viljoen
@steyn
Designer at CustomerOS. Gardener. Dad. Write at Viljoen Space about product, gardening and parenthood.
Steyn Viljoen
viljoen.space
Of course the thing about beginning again — about starting over midway through is that you have to be willing to watch yourself die.
I learned that from writing this newsletter.
Next week, it will be three years since I launched The Cereal Aisle, and I think the most important thing I have learned in the time since is that rebirth is on the other... See more
I learned that from writing this newsletter.
Next week, it will be three years since I launched The Cereal Aisle, and I think the most important thing I have learned in the time since is that rebirth is on the other... See more
Steve Jobs’ motivation was to express a gratitude for the human species — and he did this by putting care and love into things he made.
— a synopsis of one of Jony Ive’s answers from the interview between Jony Ive and Anna Wintour in RE:WIRED 2021.
Like the tiger, we dream of the savannah, the rainforest and the mangrove swamp. We want to hunt and fuck and bask in the sun. We want to climb trees and drink from freshwater streams. We want to pursue our true calling and live to our full potential. I believe this desire is in every one of us. And when it’s suppressed long enough, we rebel.
... See moreJonathan Carson • A Call to Rebellion: A New Story About Depression
An unkink hose feels like…
The freedom to know your version of enough. Take a pause, any kind of pause at any kind of time and not beat yourself up for it.
Light speed clarity.
The freedom to not set huge radical business goals just cos everyone else is, cos it's just not your time to over-hustle.
Spaciousness.
The freedom to politely decline the
... See moreGardening is not just a set of tasks. It’s not restricted to backyards, courtyards, balconies. It can, and should, happen anywhere, everywhere. Gardening is simply a framework for engagement with our world, grounded in care, action and intimacy with place. To garden is to care deeply, inclusively and audaciously for the world outside our homes and... See more
Wonderground • Audacious Gardening: On Daring to Care
A garden is a way that the land says, “I love you.” … Gardens are simultaneously a material and a spiritual undertaking.
Gardens and Into the void
moments defined not by their grandeur, but by their authenticity, by the genuine connection they foster.
Evan Armstrong • Live Fuller, Not Bigger
Following this logic, our brains reward a kept garden because it staves off wilderness, because in the wilderness there is death, and thus by keeping nature controlled and orderly, we keep death away.
Landscape maintenance is, therefore, an exercise of fear.