Sylvie

In solopreneurship, constraints force creativity. Unless you’re making a lot, you can't throw money or people at most problems. You have to think your way through them and make sacrifices. Surprisingly, this often leads to better outcomes.

Courage is the ingredient any time someone acts in the face of uncertainty. And when you act with courage consistently, time stretches.

Maybe the lesson is even simpler...

Comfort speeds up time.

Courage makes time slow down.

Looking closely is valuable at every scale. From looking closely at a sentence, a photograph, a building, a government. It scales and it cascades — one cognizant detail begets another and then another. Suddenly you’ve traveled very far from that first little: Huh.

I’d say that that huh is the foundational block of curiosity. To get good at the huh... See more

Art is so much more than one thing. It’s aesthetics, beauty and creativity. But it’s also history, economics, anthropology, spirituality, sociology, math, science. Every artwork is a snapshot of its time, often shaped by trade, politics, scarcity, and belief.

We need to remember that the market is not the economy, and the economy is not the market. And the economy makes me very worried about food banks. Children are hungry, people are hungry. And when kids can’t eat they can’t pay attention in school, and if they can’t pay attention in school they can’t be good students; they can’t move forward in the... See more

Without art, there is no architecture, no fashion, no culinary tradition, no meaningful communication. In fact, without art, we wouldn’t even know how to communicate that food, clothing, and shelter are important.

There are so many people who don’t know what they want. And I think that, in this world, that’s the only thing you have to know — exactly what you want. ... Doing what you were born to do ... That’s the way to be happy.

Be the person you want your kids to become.