An answer to the sterile ends of pure utility and the cold-heartedness of a survival mindset.
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Sip your coffee and open the door to “Beer Mode”
Beer mode is a state of unfocused play where you discover new ideas. In contrast, coffee mode is a state of focus where you work towards a specific outcome.
Pulitzer Prize winners Will and Ariel Durant on the lessons of history
The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.
The only difference between the Surrealists and me is that I am a Surrealist – Salvador Dalí
The Temptation of St. Anthony (detail), 1946 Oil on Canvas, 89.5 x 119.5 cm (35 1/4 x 47 in.) Brussels, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique
Henry Miller on the mystery of attention
Indescribably magnificent
If you inherently long
Become it first.
Expanding our limits by learning a language
It’s called modelling.
The Action Movie Fairy Tale
But these movies built a generation of men who are now in their 30s and 40s.
Flying pigs and Russian palatalization
Another month ends. All targets met. All systems working. All customers satisfied. All staff eagerly enthusiastic. All pigs fed and ready to fly. Currently reading: http://masterrussian.net/f17/shape-tongue-correctly-pronounce-russian-sounds-22855/
Optimism is a political act.
Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get any better. In fact, these days, cynicism is obedience. Alex Steffen, The Bright Green City
The secret fear that keeps you up at night is…
An uprising of octopi. Octopi forming a coalition of the willing at the bottom of the ocean. Going on Jeopardy but the other two contestants are octopi. Number 3 but Alex Trebek is also an Octopus Locking eyes with an Octopus at an aquarium, and in that single moment you know you will help itContinue reading “The secret fear that keeps you up at night is…”
Once you strip away the platitudes, a life of passion and purpose will always cost, as T.S. Eliot reminds us, ‘Not less than everything.’”
Women and Qualifications
Beyond criticism.
Alan watts on the length of life
“Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way,” Alan Watts (a philosopher) says.
Sail away from the safe harbor
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
A reality-tunnel is kind of silly
Bigger, funnier, sexier
The same man who wrote “… I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.”
Seek out some simple and true feeling.
Wise Living
Whatever and whoever.