The Long Run
on building a new world, slowly with intention
The Long Run
David Lynch lashes out at crew for not letting him go dreamy
youtube.comBut busyness has a way of stealing creativity from you. Generative work, like art and writing, requires long periods of nothingness: it’s only in that wide empty space that ideas emerge. Long runs, hot showers, commutes that don’t involve harried Slack messages and listening to podcasts at 2x speed. Sitting at the edge of a dock, listening to the o... See more
Jasmine Sun • the scenic route
If you’ve never read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, it’ll change you https://t.co/28kz05eEAU
“Later that same week, I chatted about this in a coaching session with Kristine Claghorn. I asked her, “Now that I am wiser and I know what happens when I burn out, how do I find joy in my work again?” And she asked me a question that changed my perspective instantly: “What would happen if you took the pressure off? What would work feel like then?”
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23 Truths I Wish I Knew at 23
“Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things y... See more
The Road to Self-Renewal
Jim Simons: "I’m not an extremely fast thinker myself; I just work hard."
That was all I needed to do—work hard, not fast. A paper I published in '68 took me five years. But it has had 1,850 citations. For a math paper, that’s an awful lot.
There’s too much emphasis on a person’s being able to answer questions quickly."
Here are eight imperatives—all of them drawing strength and sustenance from the humanities:
- We need a way of defining and pursuing progress that doesn’t reduce that concept to something that only comes from a digital device.
- We desperately need access to values and wisdom that aren’t corrupted by the relentless financial metrics and imposed flavor-of
Ted Gioia • The Real Crisis in Humanities Isn't Happening at College
a thought after listening to Dave Fontenot on Invest like the Best:
social media shifts our relationship with time because you feel like there’s an endless number of things you have to sift through, and time starts to feel limited.
there's something about feeling a sense of abundant time that's really powerful and conducive to flow state - how do we
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