January 2012
wow! thank you for all your encouragement and support. perfect strangers have never been sweeter or more kind.
- dee clemens in response to a note that i sent this morning. a congratulations for reaching her kickstarter goal for new year’s weave - with 11 days remaining. remember this?
when the web started, i used to get really grumpy with people because they put my poems up. they put my stories up. they put my stuff up on the web. i had this belief, which was completely erroneous, that if people put your stuff up on the web and you didn’t tell them to take it down, you would lose your copyright, which actually, is simply not true. and i also got very grumpy because i felt like...
..it’s not just mentors that need to listen: mentees need to listen to mentors to make sure their advice is relevant and applicable for what they’re building. advice is cheap to give but expensive to use. be very cognizant of the asymmetry between giving and using advice when you’re deciding what to say and what to do. as a mentor, work to understand how hard it would be for them to implement...
sometimes i wonder if i’m the only person in the world who thinks so hard and has so many words for the very particular reasons why certain things strike me. i think many would say i’m high strung or even high-maintenance. i just think i’m hyper-aware and hyper-articulate.
- onthisamazingday | via modellove
i have the sensation, as do my friends, that to function as a proficient human, you must both “keep up” with the internet and pursue more serious, analog interests. i blog about real life; i talk about the internet. it’s so exhausting to exist on both registers, especially while holding down a job. it feels like tedious work to be merely conversationally competent. i make myself schedules,...
but what’s exciting is, because of the success that the amateur class has had (and i use the word ‘amateur’ very lovingly here), and the amount of money they’ve been able to generate, it’s made the professionals more interested. suddenly, pros are looking at this thing thinking, ‘maybe i want into that,’ because it seems genuine. and it seems cool, and it seems honest. so you can see how,...
…there’s also an adrenaline rush in saying yes. many of us have become addicted, unwittingly, to the speed of our lives — the adrenalin high of constant busyness. we mistake activity for productivity, more for better, and we ask ourselves “what’s next?” far more often than we do “why this?
- tony schwartz, no is the new yes | via hbr: amber
as we mark the 39th anniversary of roe v. wade, we must remember that this supreme court decision not only protects a woman’s health and reproductive freedom, but also affirms a broader principle: that government should not intrude on private family matters. i remain committed to protecting a woman’s right to choose and this fundamental constitutional right. while this is a sensitive and often...
i’d rather go blind | etta james |...
you have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. you take the action, and the insight follows: you don’t think your way into becoming yourself.
i can’t tell you what your next action will be, but mine involved a full stop. i had to stop living unconsciously, as if i had all the time in the world. the love and good and the wild and the peace and creation that are you will reveal...
252 | gem club | via daytrotter
going steady with...
there is hardly anything in the world that someone cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price alone are that person’s lawful prey. it is unwise to pay too much, but it is also unwise to pay too little. when you pay too much, you lose a little money, that is all. when you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything because the thing you bought is...
products are not nouns but verbs. a product designed as a noun will sit passively in a home, an office, or pocket. it will likely have a focus on aesthetics, and a list of functions clearly bulleted in the manual… but that’s it. products can be verbs instead, things which are happening, that we live alongside. we cross paths with our products when we first spy them across a crowded shop floor, or...
