As a sculpture is shaped by what is chiseled off from the block of stone, so too are we shaped by what we lose — by choice, with all the complexities and difficulties of letting go, or by the scythe of chance, which takes away as impartially as it gives.
The best consumer companies reinvent the way we live. The art is in understanding the user, creating a kernel of delight, and having the resilience to ride out the storms.
4d ago
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom it has been fabricated.
Our brains sometimes get stuck in a loop that replays the moment like a broken record. In a recent New York Times feature, writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner says this about trauma: "Happy, well-adjusted people are all different. The traumatized are exactly alike."
1w ago
Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
