Everyone has something invisible that we’re dealing with and every single time we interact with someone we are seeing one sliver of that person’s life. And we are getting feedback from all the rest of their life underneath that sliver. play redirect heart
If you let go of the assumption that someone expects you to say yes, it actually becomes significantly easier to say no. play redirect heart
The idea is to invent progress hacks that make your creative work as addictive as email or social media. play redirect heart
It’s very difficult to avoid distraction when you’re not extremely clear on what you would rather be doing. play redirect heart
Once we understand why we’re so addicted to distraction, we can be more conscious about how we confront it in the future. play redirect heart
It's incredibly easy to be busy, but it's incredibly difficult to be deliberate, to stay focused. And the thing is, you can’t actually produce anything of value without being focused. play redirect heart
"Out of all that positive feedback, the one that matters is, of course, that one that says `that wasn`t really as constructive as I was hoping`" play redirect heart
What I realized was that the things that are broken are not just things that you can see or touch. play redirect heart
The only way to create good interactive language is by interacting with other people. play redirect heart
It’s so strange that we can type all day long in these chat interactions, but when your brain goes into “writing mode,” it explodes. play redirect heart
For knowledge to be preserved, it had to be expressed in interesting, memorable words. Because if the knowledge didn’t persist in the thought of a living human, it disappeared. And I kind of wish we had that today. play redirect heart
When I feel your pain, I want to do something. I want to do something to help, I want to do something to fix. play redirect heart
Creo que Minimal es una actitud y una idea, que tiene que ver con la posibilidad de no acumular sino contemplar y de transformar los materiales para encontrar nuevas posibilidades. play redirect heart
We’ve got a fairly nondescript overpass in a nondescript part of town in the suburbs for all intents and purposes, and all of a sudden we’ve got this universal, simple, symbol that gives that bridge an identity. play redirect heart
…. love and hate are kind of the same thing – it’s locked – it’s evocative of some sort of response… the lovers, the haters… I'm just happy because that means it worked… play redirect heart
Working across any sort of boundaries actually makes us immediately more vulnerable. play redirect heart