Jakob Greenfeld

Kurt Vonnegut, talking about when he tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope:

Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of b

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Who really has it better? Us bankers running around collecting more and more money, stressed by emails piling up, sitting in overly lit corporate spaces, casting judgement on people spending their afternoons laughing outdoors with friends? As the kids say, feels like cope.

I believe “what effect do you want to have on people” is one of the most important questions we should ask when we are making something. Life isn't just a series of problems to be solved but experiences to be had.

“Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.”

― Miles Davis