Valerie
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Valerie
To survive and thrive you need to have the conviction to create things your are proud of with people you love and in a way that allows you to have a meaningful life however you determine that. Anything more than that is not just “bonus,” it can actually lead to your undoing. I don’t mean financial ruin, I mean that you may loose that independence a
... See more“We design type for ourselves and how we want to use it,” says Thierry, who notes that their typefaces usually take two to three years to develop. “We are blissfully unaware of trends, and we rarely try to copy historical sources. We try to find a conceptual frame that’s interesting to us.”
Note to self: beautiful things require time.
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... See moreConfidence is directly linked to an understanding of what you believe in, your convictions. And that takes time and it takes some real life testing of your beliefs when they’re threatened. It also takes intellect to find the words to express them or the courage to enact them. Sometimes just being able to see and state the obvious can keep us on the
... See moreAre we idealists or pragmatists? Do we have principles we hold dear, and a vision for the future we want to create? Or are we fumbling along, tinkering, finding what works, and forever allowing contact with reality to rearrange our mental furniture, make a mess on our conceptual floor, and occasionally punch so many holes in the walls that need to ... See more
Chris Best • Principles and pragmatism
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So-called perfection also plays on our subconscious by eliminating the motivation to improve. The challenges of life are illuminated by the constant pursuit of improvement, as we strive to evolve ourselves and the world around us toward a better future. While we strive for perfection, the joy of its attainment is often followed by a vast emptiness
... See moreI want to explore what feels like the transcendent power of beauty to change our lives. That was the motivating question behind Beautiful World, Where Are You—the title sums it up. I have spoken about my ideological commitments—how I look at the contemporary world through a Marxist lens and through the lens of climate change, and how I feel like we
... See moreThe suffering embedded in our civilization, obscured behind the glass screens of our devices, has become an integral part of our reality. If we fail to accept this truth, we cannot progress. To move forward, we need a deeper understanding of how we conceive the world – that the quality of our being is reflected in the quality of our actions and how
... See moreMove slow and mend things. If we take the time to care, if we’re methodical and we resist the urge to rush, we can make things better for our future selves and for others. If “move fast and break things” is Silicon Valley’s rallying cry, then the flip-side is “move slow and mend things”.
To be successful (just my views only here) you will need to:
Know who you are, what you want to say. You need to say it verbally and visually with clarity, and when you fuck up (because you will) you need to be able to explain why it happened and learn from it and move on. Quickly. People will forgive you because you are human. Human is good.
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