sundays
me: “I hope that when I get older, Sundays would more relieving than anything.”
a beautiful girl: “When you can exhale nice and deep, roll around in covers reading old books that you read when you were younger, and newspapers, and tea. Sipping. Maybe even stay there all day. Until the sipping becomes wine and books become films and there will be a beautiful woman enjoying it all with you. If you want that, of course.
Because love, warm heartedness, and inner comfort are what I find holy for a holy day.”
information revolution?
the simple reality that we have access to all the information in the world doesn’t change:
1. our ability to process it
2. our interest in it
3. our imagination to think of what to do with it
People already using Siri to find innovative solutions to everyday problems.
“Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish”
thank you, steve.
“The Interview was all but complete when I met Jobs at a celebrity-filled birthday party for a youngster in New York City. As the evening progressed, I wandered around to discover that Jobs had gone off with the nine-year-old birthday boy to give him the gift he’d brought from California: a Macintosh computer. As I watched, he showed the boy how to sketch with the machine’s graphics program. Two other party guests wandered into the room and looked over Jobs’s shoulder. ‘Hmmm,’ said the first, Andy Warhol. ‘What is this? Look at this, Keith. This is incredible!’ The second guest, Keith Haring, the graffiti artist whose work now commands huge prices, went over. Warhol and Haring asked to take a turn at the Mac, and as I walked away, Warhol had just sat down to manipulate the mouse. ‘My God!’ he was saying, ‘I drew a circle!’ “
But more revealing was the scene after the party. Well after the other guests had gone, Jobs stayed to tutor the boy on the fine points of using the Mac. Later, I asked him why he had seemed happier with the boy than with the two famous artists. His answer seemed unrehearsed to me: ‘Older people sit down and ask, “What is it?” but the boy asks, “What can I do with it?”‘
“Facing an uncertain future–amidst riots, failing financial and political institutions, and the everyday challenge of meeting our commitments and nurturing our relationships–we often find ourselves getting nostalgic. We long to return to some place in the past when things seemed easier, when we were certain that we were loved.
The reality is that looking back and longing for another time will always be something that humans do, so what should our response be? Is nostalgia an okay feeling to have?”
Where do you keep your Ketchup?
“… coordinated behaviors define us. We are the sum of our habits and behaviors and beliefs. How someone holds a fork, what clothes someone wears, how a person ties her shoes. None of these matters but as they accumulate they define who we are individually and collectively. They play a role in whom we fall in love with, who bothers us, and who we find odd or strange.” - Scott Page
draft one: complete
At some point, I lose track of all the ideas that were once considered, lines that nearly made it in. It’s a difficult thing to try and get a good balance between which ideas are fresh in your head (convenience) and which ones are better. Though I suppose we can’t control when an idea comes to our head and when it goes.
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Four days after I had set the original deadline for, I have a complete draft of the talk tonight (and it’s not 2AM yet! well, it will be after I’m done writing this post). Sometimes, deadlines can be all the inspiration you need, even if they aren’t really met.
Now comes the laborious task of revising/editing (ie reading my own painful words, wondering what I was thinking at the time, and then deleting). Draft upon draft. It’s an intimidating thing to look your own work with honesty and mindful objectivity, let alone a fresh perspective.
a lesson in focus
“That’s sort of what keeps it competitive in my mind. I’m not trying to impress the two million people that watch the show; I’m trying to impress my ten friends that I know are watching.”
- Scott Vener (@brokemogul), Music Supervisor for Entourage
let’s define nostalgia
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.
— G. K. Chesterton
