Are.na

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…

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…

Franz Kafka

You are free and that is why you are lost.

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 — …

“You learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” - Plato

“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

The potential of early, text-based internet culture for countering repressive gender regimes, generating solidarity among marginalised groups, and creating new spaces for experimentation that ignited …

"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly." Franz Kafka

Emily Segal

People would be like, “how do you know this?” And I’d be like, I honestly have no idea. I’m just walking around noticing things, trying to do pattern recognition.      – Emily Segal

Ursula K Le Guin

To find a new world, maybe you have to have lost one. Maybe you have to be lost. The dance of renewal, the dance that made world, was always danced here at the edge of things, on the brink, on the fog…

"Man, sometimes it takes a long time to sound like yourself." –Miles Davis

steve jobs

"Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. You can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once yo…

When you’re losing a game you don’t even want to play, or forcing a fit into a form you don’t want to be in, the best thing to do is to stop playing and go find your shape. “If we accept ourselves and…

“The only real conflict you will ever have in your life won’t be with others, but with yourself.” ― Shannon L. Alder

Your belief system

“Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.” ― Shannon L. Alder

I have led a toothless life, he thought. A toothless life. I have never bitten into anything. I was waiting. I was reserving myself for later on—and I have just noticed that my teeth have gone. | Jean…

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” ANAÏS NIN

“Ideas are never abandoned. They’re always in the compost heap, and they always turn up. To use a gardening metaphor, I’m always in there with a pitchfork turning things over to see whether the time i…