July 2009
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WatchWen Bysocki giving Meryl Streep lessons on the Concertina. Beautiful.
wenbysocki:
Concertina Lessons in good company.
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Deciding vs. Doing
tlvx:
“I don’t usually like [Paul Graham’s essays], but I did like [his latest one], so I’m recommending it.”
The difference between the “maker’s schedule” and the “manager’s schedule”:
When you’re operating on the maker’s schedule, meetings are a disaster. A single meeting can blow a whole afternoon, by breaking it into two pieces each too small to do anything hard in. Plus you have to...
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“Although the senses are necessary for all our actual knowledge, they are not...”
– Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: New Essays on Human Understanding (via fuckyeahphilosophy) (via tba)
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“I sold my soul
in a deal with the devil
now the devil wants out”
– Gretel, Salt.
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marke, watching HELVETICA makes me realize even...
Isn’t that a great documentary? Even for non-type-nerds who don’t geek out on weight and kerning and tracking and ligatures.
Although sometimes the interviews feel like half the people are saying “I absolutely always use a hammer” and the other half are saying “I absolutely never use a hammer.” I suppose my personal thoughts are more like “I sometimes use...
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“‘You see this goblet?’ asks Achaan Chaa, the Thai meditation master. ‘For me...”
– Mark Epstein via Zen Habbits (via hypertexty)
I generally have had a very low opinion of most “zen”-type ideas I’ve come across. This one, however, makes a lot of sense to me.
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“We are our own icons. (we have to be.)”
– RonenV
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