Valerie

I think the root of the problem is the globalization of all problems.

Now, it feels like anything bad that happens anywhere in the world is somehow relevant to me and my responsibility. It’s like, I’m not allowed to be happy as long as someone, somewhere, is having a bad time.

Especially with global problems, it’s like, how are you allowed to smile

“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.

From: https://w

It’s gonna take you a while.
It’s normal to take a while.
It’d be weird if you made something beautiful so quickly. 
The problem isn’t that you’re not working fast enough.
The problem is your expectations are not realistic.
Our AI helps you slow the fuck down and make something wonderful.

— From Sublime’s newsletter, “What does slow AI look like?”

An humane web. It’s with this mindset — of care, and nurturing — that we can begin to build a better web for humans and the planet. We all need to start factoring sustainability into the web products we build. That should go hand-in-hand with building a more humane web, one that views the people building it, and more importantly, the ones using it,

The 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

Move 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”.

The perfect site doesn’t exist

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