Thomas
@tomcat
Thomas
Gurwinder
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“Social media makes more sense when you view it as a place people go to perform rather than a place to communicate.”
— Morgan Housel
4h
“Social media makes more sense when you view it as a place people go to perform rather than a place to communicate.”
— Morgan Housel
substack.com • Home | Substack
the best narratives and metaphors for thinking about how life works come not from our technologies (machines, computers) but from life itself.
Philip Ball • We need new metaphors that put life at the centre of biology | Aeon Essays
When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of growing up to satisfy user needs in a way that meets business goals for transformative outcomes
Chappell Ellisonx.com
"If your grocery store has a "health food section", what does that make the rest of the store?"
Dark Secrets of America's Most Obese Town
There is a social cost to early-moving because all our reward systems are baked into those preexisting mutually reinforcing frames. When we adopt a new frame (e.g. “the climate crisis is an emergency worth our sustained attention”) we put at risk any reward systems in conflict with our new frame.
Spencer R. Scott • Emergencies, Frameshifts and What They Tell Us About Our Place in the World
“If life is a novel, big bets are the chapter titles and tiny choices are the words on the page”
Anna Mackenzie • A lot can change in a year
here’s my way of thinking about sharing:
- your website = your home / your garden
- email newsletter = birds that carry your gifts
- public platforms (social media, podcast, = pop-up booths & tents, your energy going camping elsewhere
artist-entrepreneur system and processes -- make art and money — kening zhu
Whereas “goal” has become a tired and bloodless descriptor for the (supposed) intention to do something great, the word quest instills the right mentality for achieving a real-life personal victory:
A quest is an adventure, and you expect it to be one. You expect a quest to take you into a new and unfamiliar landscape. You expect there to be... See more
A quest is an adventure, and you expect it to be one. You expect a quest to take you into a new and unfamiliar landscape. You expect there to be... See more