tryllid
@tryllid
tryllid
- “If you want a new world, start making it right now, in whatever you are doing.” This is the best advice I ever had, it came from Brian Eno. If you imagine the world you would like to be in and start making objects, systems and collaborations that belong to that world, that world comes into being.
from Celebrating 300 issues with a new community for DD readers 🎉
- BRIAN ENO
So what you see when you watch someone surfing is they take control momentarily, to situate themselves on a wave, and then they surrender. They’re carried along by it, and then they take control again, and then they surrender. I think that’s a very good analogy of what we do throughout our lives, actually. We’re constantly moving between t... See more - Understanding comes only when we let go of our self and allow the other to grab our full attention. In order for the reality of the other’s self to fully invest us, we must first divest ourselves of our own selves.
from Simone Weil’s Radical Conception of Attention by Robert Zaretsky
- When you reduce yourself to a product, you sacrifice the very essence of what makes you unique. Your quirks, your weirdness, your vulnerabilities, your authentic self-these are the things that resonate with others, not a polished, palatable persona. The impactful creators understand this.
from You are not a commodity
- Put simply, a believing mirror is a friend to your creativity—someone who believes in you and your creativity. As artists, we can consciously build what I call creative clusters—a Sacred Circle of believing mirrors to potentiate each other’s growth, to mirror a “yes” to each other’s creativity.
from Ari's Top 5—Helping Others Get to Greatness
The soul and the body have been designed to be a functioning team, much the way the conscious and subconscious mind function together. The body knows our oneness with everything because it feels it. The awakened heart longs to explore others, to nurture others, to experience our oneness with others, and this offers a clue to the truths that the hea
... See morefrom Quantum Warrior | The Future of the Mind by John Kehoe
We are not the isolated, conscious minds often assumed in our folk psychology. Rather, we are fundamentally embodied. Any spirituality that ignores how the body influences what we think and do will not be usefully transformative.
from The Spiritual and the Political: Beyond Russell Brand by The RSA
- Schedule a 30-minute meeting with yourself, each Monday morning or Friday afternoon, to look at your upcoming week and note meetings and deliverables you need to get ahead of.When you hear of priority or strategy changes happening up the ladder, ask yourself: how could this impact our team, and what could we start prepping now?When everything is go... See more
from 14 Habits of Highly Effective Product Managers by Lenny Rachitsky
- A surprising number of projects are one small change away from succeeding. With your organizational privilege, relationships you’ve built across the company, and ability to see around corners derived from your experience, you can often shift a project outcomes by investing the smallest ounce of effort, and this is some of the most valuable work you... See more
from Work on what matters. by Will Larson