Month: November 2020
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Creativity as existence
We do nothing until it’s too late. You’d think such calls for immediacy would drive us into action. Passivity begs for a slap in the face. The way to light life back up without a disaster first coming into your path is to avoid the contagion of disengagement. Television and social media are low bandwidth…
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Bottled and unbranded
No one cares about your personal brand. It’s not your responsibility to dedicate thumbs to impression management. The screen begs for cracks. Authenticity thrives in abundance — people want to appear real (re flawed) as they are in life. That’s why filters are dead, and lenses are all the rage. You exist to shock, stand…
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Thinker types: Contrarian versus the individual
Shall one play the contrarian or the individual thinker? It’s not that interesting to be the rejectionist of the status quo just for the sake of it. What’s more interesting is forming one’s unique style or opinion and projecting that with confidence — minus the bombast, of course. What individuates individuals is their desire to…
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Pear is ripe
“When the pear is ripe, it will fall from the tree,” they say. What they don’t tell you is to catch and eat the pear right then and there. Success is a consequence of timing. Yet, maximizing the perfect moment seems to be a game of luck. All you can hope for is being in…
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Assume everything and nothing
We suffer from a surfeit of choice. An excess of options breeds indecision, the cruelest of frustrations. The result? We end up doing nothing at all. Perhaps inertia is the best solution in these dizzying times. Instead of forcing the issue, we let nature take its course. Yet, life doesn’t move unless we do. It…
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Into the vortex of interestingness
We try to put things in the right order so we can find and solve even more problems. The lighthouse in our mind is always moving faster than any dimension of reality. First, we act, and then we deduce. Lessons emerge from all the scars. The impulse to learn more keeps the story of life…