Are.na

I learned very early and painfully that you have to decide at the outset whether you want to make money or to make sense, as they are mutually exclusive. — R. Buckminster Fuller

“It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness." — Howard Bloom

Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores

“All new technologies develop within a background of tacit understanding of human nature and human work. The use of technology in turn leads to fundamental changes in what we do, and ultimately what i…

Why I adore the night, by Jeanette Winterson

I have noticed that when all the lights are on, people tend to talk about what they are doing – their outer lives. Sitting round in candlelight or firelight, people start to talk about how they are fe…

“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.” - Hannah Arendt

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited. | Jorge Luis Borges

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The p…

Matthew Frederick, 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School

Being genuinely creative means that you don’t know where you are going, even though you are responsible for shepherding the process. — Matthew Frederick, 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School

Ludwig Wittgenstein

I really do think with my pen, for my head often knows nothing of what my hand is writing.

inferno of psychogeographies

A friend of mine compared what has happened over recent years to a café. We enter it and search for a space in which we can sit with our friends and chat. But as time progresses, the café’s walls get …

On Daring to Care

"Gardening is simply a framework for engagement with our world, grounded in care and action. To garden is to care deeply, inclusively, and audaciously for the world outside our homes and our heads. It…

Knowledge making

"We do not obtain knowledge by standing outside of the world; we know because "we" are of the world. We are part of the world in its differential becoming. The separation of epistemology from ontology…

Paulo Coelho

"Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do." Paulo Coelho

Bird by Bird

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think per…

You are under no obligation to remain the same person you were a year ago, a month ago, or even a day ago. You are here to create yourself, continuously. – Richard Feynman

“Beware of anything that you hear yourself saying often.” — Susan Sontag, from Reborn: Journals & Notebooks (1947-1963)

“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.” ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

The one who learns to live with his incapacity has learned a great deal. This will lead us to the valuation of the smallest things, and to wise limitation, which the greater height demands… . The hero…

As long as you are interested in your present way of living, you will not abandon it. Discovery cannot come as long as you cling to the familiar. It is only when you realize fully the immense sorrow o…

The faster one goes, the more strain there is on the senses, the more they fail to take in, the more confusion they must tolerate or gloss over - and the longer it takes to bring the mind to stop in t…

"We can teach philosophy by teaching gardening, but we cannot teach gardening by teaching philosophy." Bill Mollison

Frank Bures, “The Fall of the Creative Class”

“[I]t may be wiser to try to cre­ate the place you want to live, rather than to keep try­ing to find it.”

Gilles Deleuze // "The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say... What a relie…

“Any fact becomes important when it’s connected to another.” ― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

Kurt Vonnegut

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I was introduced to the term by Timothy Leary when he and I were writing a book together, and I kind of fell in love with it. Neoteny is about the retention of childlike attributes in adulthood; curi…

Simplicity

"So many writers write small, shallow things in a complicated, difficult style. I think what I want to do is write serious, complicated, difficult things in a very easy style that is fluid and comfort…

“I’m too old” is something we tell ourselves to save ourselves from the emotional cost of the ego deflation involved in being a beginner. Cameron, Julia. The Artist's Way (p. 138). Penguin Publishing …