The universe is a vast and uncaring place.
There is no right or wrong, morality is a human construct. Nothing we do will have any significance beyond our tiny, worthless, unimportant sphere of influence.
Yet here I am, waiting in line to order a veggie sandwich with locally grown ingredients, and holding in a fart.”
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One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all. Shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things will fill from behind, from beneath, like water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.”
Friendly Internet Reminder: Making things for other people is really, really hard.”
All life is suffering.
Attachment is the root of suffering.
It is possible not to suffer.
If you are a robot.”
Geoff Barnes via Pappy
You can’t take a bag of cool to the bank.”
Don’t trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover.”
Responsiveness isn’t just something we can build into our product. It’s an attitude we can adopt. We can learn to listen to the changing environment, to be available to respond. ”
What do we want to spend more time with? What shapes us? What nourishes us? What do we want to see grow?”
Design is the choices we make about the world we *want* to live in.”
Now we are entering a third age in which the central economic actor is someone who both produces and consumes in the same act. I like the term “creator,” as this new kind of actor is doing something more fundamental than the mere sum of their simultaneous production and consumption. Creators are ordinary people whose everyday actions create value.[...] Thus, just as the time clock symbolized the producer economy and the credit card the consumer economy, the computer mouse is the symbol of the emerging creator economy.”Paul Saffo viaPierat
