Self
Being awake means we're conscious of what's going on inside us, as it happens, and so can make more conscious choices rather than acting on our impulses all the time. | Passion comes from hard work. Passion bubbles up from intense, sometimes tedious labour. Passion floats in when you're exhausted from doing something by yourself, for yourself, just to survive. | You are worth your weight in gold, but don't think for a second that you're a prize to be won, like a pile of chips on the table. You're as lovely and common and necessary as air. Read more ❯
| There is a motif, in fiction and in life, of people having wonderful things happen to them, but still ending up unhappy. | The hotel is, of course, an ideal place for cerebral brooding; hotels are, by their nature, in between. It is where you sleep, but it is not your home.
Relationships
Friendships are unique relationships because unlike family relationships, we choose to enter into them. And unlike other voluntary bonds, like marriages and romantic relationships, they lack a formal structure. | This type of attention to a lover's intelligence - and to those facets of character that fall under the auspices of intelligence and factor into respect, such as fairness, integrity, magnanimity, and sensitivity - is consistent with the way women novelists have long written about love. | Most of our courtship narratives are still romantic, which really tends to obscure the importance of friendship's early stages. Read more ❯ | "I see a lot of anxiety and unhappiness in people who try to plan out their love lives too carefully or who try to forecast how happy they'll be based on certain choices they make" | One night, drunk at 2 a.m., I was trying to decipher if an innocuous Drake lyric he tweeted could somehow be directed at me as a possible admission of affection.
Creativity
"I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position myself away from so-called conclusions. I would like to leave everything wide open to all the possibilities in the world" | Twombly's career was devoted to making portraits of inner life so that we might learn to communicate its fruits to other people. Getting others to share our experiences is notoriously difficult. | Design is a rather broad and vague term. When someone says "I'm a designer," it is not immediately clear what they actually do day to day. Read more ❯ | The most common mood lines can be easily seen in practice - the vertical line indicating "noble, dramatic, inspirational, aspiring" | "I think the greatest stroke of luck in my life is that I'm 1 percent more curious than I am terrified"
Technology
Code has been my life, and it has been your life, too. It is time to understand how it all works | I learned that by creating difference instead of competition, you can offer unique value and expertise that compliments your cohorts, builds you an excellent reputation, gives you a distinct voice, and helps you stand out. | Newsletters cater to people who want to stay informed without feeling like a slave to the Twitter stream - all the news you can use is waiting in a hand-crafted email sitting in your inbox. Read more ❯ | Friendships, relationships, work, activism, commerce, and so many other forms of social connections take place digitally. As we thrive in these internet spaces, harassment and violence along intersecting axes of oppression are felt with unchecked force. | The A-Z of digital transformation
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