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Collecting and craft
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2 min read
Friction is the great stabilizer. We need just enough technology to enable creation while constricting our attention to the gusts of other content. The emergence of shiny new apps and devices often throws our work into disarray. Sometimes it’s the basic pen and paper (typewriter, anybody?) is all that’s required to induce focus. The same…
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Listening seeds ideas. Overheard dialogue, especially misheard words, are auditory stimulants for the imagination. Said Joan Didion in her essay “On Keeping a Notebook:” “See enough and write it down, I tell myself, and then some morning when the world seems drained of wonder, some day when I am only going through the motions of doing…
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You can’t schedule joy
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“We make lists because we don’t want to die,” said Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco. The problem with lists though is that we tend to include things we enjoy doing like writing, reading, meditating, along with other habits we should do, like exercise or our grocery shopping. When we fail to cross an item…
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‘Time is to clock as mind is to brain’ 🕰️
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1 min read
Time is to clock as mind is to brain. The clock or watch somehow contains the time. And yet time refuses to be bottled up like a genie stuffed in a lamp. Whether it flows as sand or turns on wheels within wheels, time escapes irretrievably, while we watch. Even when the bulbs of the…
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Wes Anderson vehicles
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Video editor Jaume R. Lloret compiled some of the vehicles from Wes Anderson movies including The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and Grand Budapest Hotel. What aesthetic eye candy!
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Jeff Bezos 1997 interview
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Taped in June 1997, the founder of Amazon Jeff Bezos outlines his vision for his company’s music and books webstore model. Flash forward 21 years later, and the company is not only corroding the retail sector by selling everything online, it also owns everything from grocery stores, newspapers, its own web services, to who know’s…
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Becoming Amazon-proof
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Amazon buffets the shores of brick and mortar retailers. No business is Amazon-proof. No business is sacred in the internet-era. We have to assume that everything we do today will at some point be replaced by something quicker, cheaper, and more personalized. Dumping the problems on tomorrow will get us rekt. How do we remain…
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‘I…cannot…even…’
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Heads up: I handpick items that I think my readers would like and feature them here. If you buy something, I earn an affiliate commission which helps support the blog. There are also others ways to show your love. I Cannot Even, Funny Paper Notepad Stationery [easyazon_cta align=”none” cart=”y” identifier=”B015I0ZGCS” key=”wide-orange” locale=”US” tag=”wells01-20″] Everything is…