Stuff we're thinking about
...I have almost invariably found that the very feeling which has seemed to me most private, most personal, and hence most incomprehensible by others, has turned out to be an expression for which there is a resonance in many other people.
-Carl Rogers On Becoming a Person (1961)
The point of these lines is clear. In the old days, craftsmen did not cut corners. They worked carefully, and they took care with every aspect of their work. Every part of the product was considered, and each was designed and made to be exactly as it should be. These craftsmen did not relax their thoughtful self-discipline even with respect to feat... See more
Harry Frankfurt • On Bullshit
A special target of examination ought to be how societies differ in making room for pauses in the midst of life, for it is during such pauses that individuals are able to appraise the meaning of what they have undergone.
-Yi-Fu Tuan Life as a Field Trip
"I call myself a farmer. Wall Street is flooded with hunters-people who try to go out and find the big game.
They fell it and bring it back, and there's a huge feast and everything is fabulous, and then they look for the next big game.
I plant seeds and then I spend all of my time cultivating them.”
—Thomas Russo" (William Green, Richer, Wiser, Happier)
One's ability to articulate an idea always lags behind the understanding of the idea, and the understanding of an idea often lags behind the embodiment in which it is first given life. It can take a surprising amount of time to come to understand what a prototype is trying to "say", and longer still to say it oneself.
-Bret Victor
Feist, in a Broken Record Interview on reconnecting with your artistic roots:
It was a way to strip myself of all of the rules that I'd come up with that they were like collated invisibly over time.
Like, "Okay , I don't, I shouldn't do that anymore because that didn't work. Okay, so now I have rule number one. Now, I shouldn't play multiple shows i
... See moreAI will take all that digital garbage and multiply it by a thousand. Or ten thousand. Or maybe more.
Let's Just Admit it: The Algorithms Are Broken
