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This post may contain affiliate links. Please see the disclosure for more info. There seems to be a lot of confusion out there still between WordPress.com and WordPress.org. Think of WordPress.com as the all-in-one site-building package that hosts all your content and design, pretty much everything! It’s a one-stop-shop that comes with WordPress’s own plugins like Jetpack…
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The tools of our tools
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Technology is not neutral. FANG (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google) wants to make all decisions for us and dissolve us into all-consuming bots while the machines do all the thinking and making. Humans are workers, not to be hedonistic jobless throwaways. We seek meaning and identify ourselves through our labor. But our biggest misconception is presuming…
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‘Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it’
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If you are thinking in absolutes, the fickle world will shake you. Uncertainty is what keeps you on our toes, never in a standstill. Predictable patterns try to lull you to sleep. You compel yourself to ride with the pendulum. Comfort meets chaos with patience and confidence. If you need reassurance, read Rudyard Kipling’s 1895…
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Blasphemy? This artist sets works of art on fire 🔥
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What is new instantly becomes old, a permanent attrition. At least that’s perspective of artist Maaren Baas, who took a blowtorch to Gerrit Rietveld’s iconic Red and Blue Chair and turned it into something completely new. “I do not want to destroy, says Baas, “… burning is not something negative. Standstill is. If things remain…
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Visuals: Faceless portrAits
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Atop Adrift Adjacent Afar All photos by Wells Baum People from behind + Story + Favorite place + Faceless
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Einstein: The World As I See It
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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead —his eyes are closed. The insight into the mystery of…
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Human rationality and craziness
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The most successful people are both rational and crazy. As much as robots and artificial intelligence threaten our creativity, there will be some people who cultivate the randomness of thought to continue innovating. Wrote Jean-Luc Godard: “It’s not where you take things from — it’s where you take them to.” See the world, not its…
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Have you forgotten how to read books?
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We need to relearn how to read books in the digital age. Online reading is a different experience than physical print. For one, the digital experience is stickier because of its dopamine-hitting bells and whistles. We constantly shift between articles, apps, and text messages, hijacked by the latest entertaining gaze. It’s the equivalent of flipping…
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Want to remember more of what you read? Give your brain a 10-15 minute rest. No phones, no distractions, just pure boredom, a quiet room and dimmed lights. Why do we need to reduce interference? It takes longer for new information to encode and simply consuming more or squandering time on social media will make…
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Curiosity is not neutral
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Life can be a string of unnoticeable moments. That’s why we compel our eyes to see. The secret to paying attention is being inquisitive. Not just asking questions, but seeking a different perspective. People act like each other on the surface but deep down they are unique. They know how to intuitively think for themselves.…
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“If you’re put on a pedestal you’re supposed to behave like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.” — Margaret Atwood
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It is human nature to ponder anxieties that do not exist. The mind is a fabrication machine, developing worries before they deserve any attention. Wrote Carlos Castaneda in Journey to Ixtlan (Amazon):“To worry is to become accessible… And once you worry, you cling to anything out of desperation; and once you cling you are bound to…
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