Theme 37: Time

"That's how you create opportunity in your life... That's another way to invent time. You not only invent it in yourself and your own belief system, you invent it in everyone around you, who feels you're available."

Classical symphonies, sonatas, great works of music use sheer time to work out in great depth the captivated ideas of their composer.

If you slave for untold hours you get one minute that's clear and that's perfect.

Be kind. Be generous. Be happy.

Do it again. Sometimes you're going to win, sometimes you're going to lose. The important thing is you learn from it.

Do it as well as you can. I really believe that you should try and improve your craft so keep learning, keep trying to do better. But pursue excellence don't pursue perfection.

Do it now. There's never going to be enough time, you're never going to know enough, it's not going to get easier when you get older. Do it now.

Be inspired. Level up. Do some quests. Expand your skill tree. Get every last achievement because if it is true that our entire universe... is a game, shouldn't we be playing more of it?

The next time that you run into a design problem you're trying to fix, do what I do: steal from the universe.

Embrace emergent phenomena.

Don't sweat the small stuff.

Even something as expansive as the universe knows when when things are simply out of scope.

Control your scope.

Limitations breed creativity. Use them early and often.

Use limitations creatively.

To start hacking the universe, we first have to understand the limitations of the infinity engine.

The universe is impossibly good.

Counting humans alone, the universe has 7 billion players logged in as we speak, despite having no visible monetization strategy.

As near as we can tell, the universe spent the first two-thirds of its product cycle in beta, functioning as a sort of planetary creation game until the release of the Earth expansion 4.5 billion years ago.

Everything that we see through our eyes, everything that we know through mathematical language and everything we experiment, is just a different vibration of the same quantum.

Our perception of time can change based on the temperature.

All the galaxies in the Universe revolve together around a single black hole, so-called Big Bang.

Music allows us to travel back and forth in time!

When everything else for her was falling apart, we were building something.

We got to talk about this. We got to rally around this thing. That was our whole family's casket.

It's hard to know what to say. You've already had to say, 'Grandmother, your casket is ready.'

When you throw away your ancestors, when you throw away your culture, you doom future generations into a state of throw-aways.

Gazing at the clouds is a pointless activity, and that is exactly why it’s so important.

Mindfulness is this idea that you confront the emotions that you’re having right when they are happening instead of pushing them away. That has a lot to do too with the things you do on a regular basis. “Oh I need to call my mum, oh I need to make that appointment”. Instead of saying “Oh I’ll do it tomorrow” and letting it fester, creating this big ball of anxiety, to really confront it head on.

So let's boil it down, really really really easy. Just make the items, give the items. That's it, especially in hospitality where it's about the customer experience. So, how's that for customer experience?

My perception of fear completely shifted. It went from that thing I must avoid at all costs to a way to explore new things, uncover new emotions, and really push myself.

Entre los creativos hay muchos maniacos

El cerebro es la frágil morada del alma

"Morena la vida es Limitada"

No pressure, but I think how you spend your time, as it's your greatest gift, is immensely important to the world.

Conversations inform culture. Conversations shift culture. And culture shifts the world. I don't think culture is a static thing, I don't think it's a fixed thing, and I don't think it's something that just happens to us. I think that we create, or we help create, or we inform, and then we take with us.

Artists have the power to shift conversations. They have the power to spark conversations.

I think a lot of artists don't realize, or creatives don't realize, how much power they have. Your time is the reason you have that power. It is what makes you; it is what makes us powerful.

Time is our greatest gift. Time is YOUR greatest gift.

Time, itself, is a creative process.

If we can accept the fundamental nature of time, if we can make it our friend and not our enemy, then I think that we can make better work. Or, at least, we can become better friends with ourselves and become more sane.

It's not just how much you have, it's how you use it. And I think, you know, this ever-ticking clock is not necessarily the thing that prevents us from making more or making better. But, instead, it's a factor in the process.

We don't have to think of time as an adversary, we can think of it as a contributor, as a factor — or even as a collaborator.

We do seem to exist, in terms of our work, and really, in most aspects of our life, in this really adversarial relationship with time.

There has to be more than doing what society tells us.