Habit Fields: interesting article on setting up spaces
Every object emits a habit field.” Jack Cheng
Self Discovery & The Enneagram: Find Out You
I used to be a bit of a personal development nut. Through my late teens and twenties I spent an ungodly amount of time in coffee shops reading through spiritual classics, self help books, Kahlil Gibran, and The Inquirer. I also spent an even ungodlier amount of time writing in a journal… good ol’ paper and pen and writing till the answer came out.
I don’t know what I had up my butt, but I felt a good deal like the universe was some swirling mess of possibilities and I wanted to figure out what bits of it which concerned me. My dad told me at the time life doesn’t work like that, that you have to just dive into the workforce, get wet and figure things out as you go. I believe him now, but at the time there was too much magic in all the dreaming. (more…)
Ben Dunlap on a passionate life
Seth Godin On Shipping
“What you do for a living is not be creative, what you do is ship.”
Maybe this is all the Seth Godin you’ll need for a while…
Seth Godin: Quieting the Lizard Brain from 99% on Vimeo.
Maybe this is all the Seth Godin you’ll need for a while…
All you need is 1000 true fans
A creator, such as an artist, musician, photographer, craftsperson, performer, animator, designer, videomaker, or author – in other words, anyone producing works of art – needs to acquire only 1,000 True Fans to make a living.” ~ Kevin Kelly
An unbelievably touching letter: Richard to his dead wife
My friend @jaethan turned me onto this… a letter that Richard Feynman wrote to his wife Arline who had been dead two years at the time of the writing. It was written in 1946.
It is a bludgeon and plume of hearty life, and will affect you deeply… especially if you are a husband… living in a world of distracting gadgets and careers and ideas. Read it where it was originally posted, or I’ve reprinted it below.
Clay Shirky’s insightful article on old media business, and new.
Some video still has to be complex to be valuable, but the logic of the old media ecoystem, where video had to be complex simply to be video, is broken."
~ Clay Shirky
Gary Veynerchuck – Web 2.0 Expo, 2008
Gary V is normally a bit too much for me. But I like this video a lot. You do too. Be honest.
“I believe you really are a good husband…”
I hate the way you talk about your married life, Harry,”said Basil Hallward, shaking his hand off, and strolling towards the door that led into the garden. “I believe that you are really a very good husband, but that you are thoroughly ashamed of your own virtues. You are an extraordinary fellow. You never say a moral thing, and you never do a wrong thing. Your cynicism is simply a pose.”
The Picture of Dorian Gray