Yanis Markin
@yanis
designing Sublime
Yanis Markin
It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature. Even the structure of tennis, the way the pieces fit inside one another like Russian nesting dolls, mimics the structure of our days.
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iA Writer 5: From Raw to Cooked to Sushi
a supercharged "ideaverse" to support and power all of your thinking efforts.
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the accumulation of learning, an inevitable byproduct of the process of growing up, takes us not closer to but further away from our creative source