May 2013
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May 13th
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May 11th
2,186 notes
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May 9th
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May 4th
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April 2013
8 posts
Apr 28th
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“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”
– Lao Tzu
Apr 20th
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Apr 19th
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Apr 17th
87 notes
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“Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal...”
– Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Apr 16th
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“When I was a kid, I used to buy and sell gravity.”
– “Preacher” by OneRepublic
Apr 15th
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Imitate the truth
Ever feel that scientific models never get at the truth? Well maybe think of it this way: it’s a lie to communicate the truth. Like a story.
Apr 12th
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Apr 2nd
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March 2013
7 posts
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If you imagine yourself as a tourist wherever you are, suddenly you embrace the present and absorb everything around you. There’s something magical about “traveling.”
Mar 24th
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Mar 23rd
1,566 notes
5 tags
Finding conflicts that you enjoy resolving
The struggles of learning a musical piece (or really accomplishing anything in life) relates to a concept from gaming: “Video games mean losing. So why play?” The core idea is that we need some failure to maximally enjoy success. We need to encounter struggle - just like Leibniz thought in his proposal that God did create the perfect world and the perfect world must have some evil in...
Mar 22nd
“I realized that I got to spend that entire day working on this product that I...”
– David Karp in an interview with Fast Company about his first day of work dedicated solely to Tumblr
Mar 18th
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Mar 13th
11 notes
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It's a crazy world
Because you know what’s awesome? World peace. And you know what else is awesome? Catapults. -George Watsky’s Letter to my 16-Year-Old Self
Mar 8th
“Enjoy your worries. You may never have them again.”
Mar 3rd
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February 2013
13 posts
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Life divided by a curtain
I view my high school life and earlier as though it were hidden by a curtain, and I am reluctant to peek under it. I lift it occasionally, only to drop it gladly. It is not that I disliked or regretted that life; it was just filled with so much naïveté and immaturity, I am glad to have grown out of it.
Feb 25th
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a hollow heart
the red fire fell - flames still beating, bleeding light devouring it, rays like lasers until the smooth crisp outline hardened the outside, a shell a wisp of smoke escapes, streams upward thin and smooth like candle wax the final breath of the hollow heart
Feb 20th
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We want models not for the truth of the world, but for mastering our experience of it.
Feb 18th
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Feb 16th
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Feb 16th
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Feb 12th
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That second that just passed felt beautiful.
Feb 12th
Feb 10th
21 notes
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What do I have now that I won’t have later - and so should cherish now, and prepare to live without?
Feb 9th
3 notes
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Feb 8th
31,806 notes
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The Knife
my mind is the knife; my thoughts, the blade. unfortunately, you hold the handle.
Feb 8th
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What if there were an animal like us that did what we did to them? An animal that caged us, put us on for show, etc.?
Feb 8th
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Reporter: Why climb Mount Everest?
George Leigh Mallory: Because it's there.
Feb 2nd
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January 2013
11 posts
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Jan 30th
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“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the...”
– Louis L’Amour, author
Jan 28th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 23rd
77 notes
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Sometimes I think life is all about arriving.
Jan 22nd
Jan 18th
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Maybe you never really understand anything. You just get satisfied.
Jan 18th
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“If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are...”
– Lao Tzu
Jan 14th
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Steps
What can I do to be better than I was yesterday?
Jan 6th
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Jan 6th
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“…there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
– Shakespeare’s Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2
Jan 3rd
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December 2012
20 posts
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Only a crack in this castle of glass
Dec 31st
5 tags
firelight
my life is the music I express the fire that flickers in the night the embers that jump - a shouting mess warmth within warmth, a flowering light
Dec 30th
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There’s a point when you need to stop trusting the world and instead start questioning the way that it is.
Dec 23rd
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Dec 21st
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Surrounded by beauty
To be surrounded by beauty so peaceful absorbing it all inside
Dec 21st
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Arrived in Seattle for Redfin. Warwick Hotel. Flooding floors. Walking the city. Exploring - reminded me of Brisbane and walking around there. So peaceful. I love the room and the beauty all around me. The calm. The cars streaming about below. I’m on the 17th floor - room 1709 - with nothing but calm and quiet and time.
Dec 20th
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There’s still time to unleash genius.
Dec 19th