Gus Guerrero
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Gus Guerrero
The untethered – people without a strong connection to an ecology and community – lack a shared past and see little value in working towards a shared future.
“Becoming a person of place makes long-term investments desirable, because the future becomes more valuable to you. Those who have committed to a place, an ecosystem, a community, feel those as... See more
“Becoming a person of place makes long-term investments desirable, because the future becomes more valuable to you. Those who have committed to a place, an ecosystem, a community, feel those as... See more
“All those things that I've always tried to push away — having a vivid imagination or asking weird questions or whatever, I gave them a voice by writing and that's now what I do. So, all those things that I was so ashamed of or that made me feel really weird, are now what I actually like about myself. My writing has taken me places that I really en
... See more“Strategy can be considered a simple machine that consists of just four working parts: Ends, Ways, Means, and Assumptions”
For Gray, Ends were the goals, Ways the actions taken, Means were the resources deployed, and Assumptions were the necessary leaps, imagination, and guesses.
Strategy, Rediscovered? — Martin Weigel
Strategy is about “shifting events and outcomes in one’s favour. Strategy in other words, is about creating new futures.”
The Hydrant Directory
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The idea of research as leisure activity has stayed with me because it seems to describe a kind of intellectual inquiry that comes from idiosyncratic passion and interest. It’s not about the formal credentials. It’s fundamentally about play . It seems to describe a life where it’s just fun to be reading, learning, writing, and collaborating on idea... See more
Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity
was better to hear the unhappy details of such a life from the lips of the man who had led it rather than from someone else. Mothers often portrayed fathers in too flattering a light. Obituaries rarely told the whole story, especially when their subjects led classified lives.
Daniel Silva • The Black Widow
build a world, not an audience — kening zhu
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“Don’t be a hunter-gatherer in the wild, competing for food. go build yourself a magical forest-farm, and grow your garden of nourishing things… keep growing your world. Feed yourself, and have plenty of abundance left over — to feed your guests.”
All of this can be described in one word--'Aiglatson'--which is 'Nostalgia' spelled backwards and is a word told to me by Gabriel Fackre to symbolize the yearning for things to come;
revering the future;
without being disrespectful to the past (remembering that once it was all that was humanly possible), preferring the dreams of the future to the exp... See more
revering the future;
without being disrespectful to the past (remembering that once it was all that was humanly possible), preferring the dreams of the future to the exp... See more