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"Things in our life simply don't go according to set decisions. One glides into a new epoch, and the so-called 'decision' is as a rule only the final summing-up of items looking fine entered into the …

"It is not certain that everything is uncertain." (Blaise Pascal, 'Pensées')

"The good life can be achieved to perfection by any soul capable of showing indifference to the things that are themselves indifferent." (Marcus Aurelius, 'Meditations' Book XI)

"It may be that the things you fret and fume to pursue or avoid do not come to you, but rather you go to them. Let your judgements of them, then, remain in suppression; they for their part will make n…

Valeria Luiselli, Sidewalks

Hooked on the biblical myth of Paradise, we'd like to believe that the names of things are precise and imperative, that there's a word in the core of each thing and that pronouncing it is the equivale…

Joseph Pieper. “Leisure: The Basis of Culture.”

Leisure as The Basis for Learning A reading of Josef Peiper “For assuming all too rashly, for the moment, that our new house is going to be built in the Western tradition—a thing so arguable that it m…

Kate Crawford

Every photograph from an Apple iPhone is fundamentally an AI image. Every photograph taken by an iPhone camera is actually many frames with different exposure levels melded together as a composite. An…

Bret Victor

You can choose to sleepwalk through life and accept the path that's been laid out for you. You can choose to accept the world as it is. But you don't have to. If there's something in the world you fee…

Taste Is the New Intelligence - by stepfanie tyler

“Everything we come into contact with has the potential to influence our taste. So the art of living well includes the art of feeding your input stream.” — Rick Rubin

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“the aesthetic is an allegory for the production” —Fredric Jameson

— David Lynch

“I’m just, you know, kind of happy in the doing of things. Even just having a great cup of coffee is happiness. Getting an idea, or realizing an idea. Working on a painting…working on a piece of sculp…

Laurence Scott, "Hell is Ourselves"

The Internet adores this second-person voice. There it is, at every cyber–street corner: Recommended for You, Suggestions for You, Here Is Something You Might Like. Behind each of these You’s, an algo…

"We must not use the word system, then, to refer to an object. A system is an abstraction. It is not a special kind of thing, but a special way of looking at a thing." (Christopher Alexander, 1968. Sy…

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Freud

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved. Freud

John Stuart Mill

"Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendenc…

Steve Jobs, context is him meeting his wife

You can’t plan to meet the people who will change your life. It just happens. Maybe its random, maybe its fate. Either way, you can’t plan for it. But you want to recognize it when it happens, and hav…

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Franz Kafka

You are free and that is why you are lost.

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https://keningzhu.com/journal/build-a-world-not-an-audience

instead of “building an audience,” build a world. build a digital garden-ecosystem, that exists — first and primarily — for itself. a world that doesn’t need likes, traffic, subscribers, or clicks — …

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“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.…

Poet Marianne Moore offers a simple life strategy: "I've made it a principle not to be over-influenced by minor disappointments."

Søren Kierkegaard

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk… every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so…

“Hacking is a natural outgrowth of systems thinking. Systems permeate much of our lives. These systems underpin most of complex society, and are becoming increasingly complex as society becomes more c…

“The tools we use inform the marks we make” - Brad Bartlett

“Every man has two lives, and the second starts when he realizes he has just one” -Confucius