Thomas

B

ut how

, specifically, can you understand the subjective workings of another person’s mind? Well, you don’t want to peer

at

them; you want to engage

with

them. Looking at a person is different from looking at a thing because a person is looking back at you. I’m getting to know you at the same time you’re getting to know me. To truly see someone... See more

In a world that is completely without rituals and wholly profane, all that is left are consumption and the satisfaction of needs.

I’ve always loved spending time with photographers not because of the way they capture moments or compose shots or manipulate light and angles to construct portraits. It’s not because of the making at all but because of the way photographers can peer into. The way they slow themselves to allow themselves to be pulled into visual situations. Or... See more

I was talking to a friend the other day about life hacks and he said: what if life hacks, in the end, make you a hack? No one wants to be a hack. A hack job is a job poorly done. No matter how much we glorify hacks as workarounds to success, nothing gets you there except actual work. The grind, the hustle, the hours on end putting your head down... See more

“In the past, jobs were about muscles. Now they’re about brains, but in the future, they’ll be about the heart.”

As Pablo Picasso once put it: “Everything you can imagine is real.” To which I would add: but only everything you can imagine.