A blog that takes very seriously this business of not taking oneself too seriously (and vice versa).
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“When people realize they’re being listened to, they tell you things.”— Richard Ford, whose dyslexia forces him to listen more closely when people...
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“A normal human being does not want the Kingdom of Heaven: he wants life on earth to continue. This is not solely because he is “weak,” “sinful” and...
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I’m trying to figure out why the title was censored?
Who I Follow
Being ‘normal’ is not a high priority of mine — being human, however, is. It’s amazing how little the two have to do with one another.
Jessica S.
The cure for all things is complaining.
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The constructive schizoid person stands against the spiritual emptiness of encroaching technology and does not let himself be emptied by it. He lives and works with the machine without becoming a machine. He finds it necessary to remain detached enough to get meaning from the experience, but in doing so to protect his own inner life from impoverishment.
Rollo May, Love and Will
And make no mistake about it, you are dumb. You’re a group of incredibly well-educated dumb people. I was there. We all were there. You’re barely functional. There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups, but the screw-ups, they’re a-coming for ya. It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
Aaron Sorkin, Syracuse Commencement Speech
Having done some freelance copywriting for advertising myself, I know what a dark and cynical world copywriters can live in. But, focusing that darkness for humor is awesome! Witness the funny that arises from hijacking copy at Depressed Copywriter. A little reminiscent of Ji Lee’s Bubble Project.
Tired of staring at a computer all day? Well, go back a 100 years and you’d have been working in a grueling factory all day. Go back another century and you’d have been tending a field all day. Go back 500 years and more than half of your children would have died before the age of five. And yet you’d *still* be using all kinds of human-made objects and systems. As we read yesterday, humans may have been deploying fire for 1 MILLION YEARS. No matter how far back you go, you’ll find us shaping our environment. It is technology all the way down.
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Clever bookends.
The creative process could be said to resemble a ladder, where the bottom rung is the blank page and the top rung the final piece. In between, the artist climbs the ladder by making a series of choices and executing them. Many of our conversations about creative work are made lame because they concern only the top rung of the ladder – the finished piece. We must talk about those middle rungs, understanding that each step up the ladder is equal parts Why and How. To only entertain one is to attempt to climb a ladder with one foot: it may be possible, but it is a precarious task.
Frank Chimero, The Shape of Design
