Sylvie
@sylvie
Sylvie
We don’t build community .
We build containers where community has a chance to emerge.
We build containers where community has a chance to emerge.
How Communities Emerge
Build Your Fire
I used to think that most of my early 20s was “wasted time” because I did nothing productive outside of my career. However, looking back now I realized that I was consuming information that would eventually help with this blog. The information you consume will likely one day provide you with some benefit, you just don’t know where... See more
I used to think that most of my early 20s was “wasted time” because I did nothing productive outside of my career. However, looking back now I realized that I was consuming information that would eventually help with this blog. The information you consume will likely one day provide you with some benefit, you just don’t know where... See more
Nick Maggiulli • Great Things Take Time
the spirit of a labyrinth — in its valuing the journey over the destination, the process over the product, the creative biodiversity of its environment over its metrics or profit optimization, and most essentially — the act of being and existing over persuading, or selling — this spirit can be a guiding ethos for business.
your business — as an... See more
your business — as an... See more
kening zhu • Build a Labyrinth, Not a Funnel
she also said “a secret in to life in the arts is finding the things you like doing that people like seeing you do”
“conventional budgeting methods rely on restriction, discipline, and perfectionism in a way that doesn’t work for people. They ignore an important truth about money: it’s meant to be spent.”
No-Buy Year? No Thanks.
Dana Miranda
Being a creative means embracing the urge to put more of yourself—your identity, personality, and unique way of seeing—into the world, whether it be the way you make your breakfast in the morning or your trick for getting through your morning commute, or the themes that keep coming up among the thousands of photos in your camera roll. When we... See more
Spencer Chang • field notes on being a creative [pt. 1]
Bringing people together: Almost without exception, the projects studied have made a significant contribution to bringing people together. At a simple level, more than nine out of ten respondents made new friends as a result of their involvement. This is such an ordinary outcome of participating in the arts that it can easily be underestimated:
... See moreFrançois Matarasso • Use or ornament? The social impact of participation in the arts
That was our first lesson. To earn money, we did some house chores that we called “job-jobs”.
You could only do the paying “job-jobs” after your regular household chores.
She continued to build on this by talking to us about our futures and encouraging us to save to meet different goals instead of spending it all.
You could only do the paying “job-jobs” after your regular household chores.
She continued to build on this by talking to us about our futures and encouraging us to save to meet different goals instead of spending it all.
Afraid To Talk To Your Kids About Money? My Mom Is Not
the things that have always worked will always work: solve real problems for real people and learn how to communicate that very, very clearly and well. There will always be something shiny to chase and distract from the essentials; the difficult part is to keep doing the things that have always worked.