January 2010
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Jan 29th
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Listenhipstertracks: Beach House - Norway
Jan 28th
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The Serious Pursuit of Fun →
“Imagine that your main goal in life was to have as much fun as possible. What would your life look like?”
Jan 28th
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“The earth is my body, my head is in the stars.”
– Maude Chardin, Harold And Maude (via movieoftheday)
Jan 28th
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Jan 27th
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The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down →
“The word comes from the Old French achever, “to finish,” and before that, from a Latin phrase meaning “to come to a head.” Surely, though, as the cliché goes, life’s pleasure lies in the journey, not in the destination. And who looks forward to being finished, in the word’s most final sense?”
Jan 27th
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Jonathan Ames: Fear of Everything →
What’s the fear that drives you to write? Well, it doesn’t cause you to write. It’s just the fear of writing, and the fear of everything, and fear of the meaninglessness of your own existence.
Jan 24th
Listen‘Little Lion Man’ - Mumford &...
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“These thoughts were on his mind as he got into bed that night. And they were not...”
–  Ian McEwan, The Daydreamer
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“We should be the authors of our own ambition.”
–  Alain de Botton
Jan 21st
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The World Doesn’t Need Someone Telling Us What We... →
“The arguments that Apple shouldn’t build a tablet simply because other companies have tried and failed in the past, or that they shouldn’t make a tablet because they failed with the Cube, are both troubling.”
Jan 19th
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Five emotions you never knew you had  →
victoriaisamess: Some emotional states only have names in particular languages. Here are some examples: Fiero (Italian): contented pride in achieving something just for oneself. Amae (Japanese): the sweet feeling of being dependent on someone else. Naches (Yiddish): the glow of proud pleasure that only a child can give to its parents. Schadenfreude (German): the feeling you experience when...
Jan 19th
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“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent...”
– Bertrand Russell (via tmblg) (via kevin)
Jan 12th
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Jan 11th
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Why balance is overrated →
“Being truly exceptional requires complete immersion. Becoming great demands that you give yourself to your practice fully.”
Jan 10th
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“Dare to fail. Fail fast. Learn from failure. Build on failure. Share failure....”
–  John Winsor
Jan 10th
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Jan 7th
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“your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. be on the...”
– The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski
Jan 6th
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My 3 Words for 2010 →
“I’ve practiced something I call “my 3 words,” where I come up with three words that I use as guidance for how I should conduct my efforts in the year to come. I set goals around these three words. I build deadlines and projects around these words. They don’t have to mean anything to you, but the process might prove interesting to you, especially if you’ve found goal-setting difficult in the...
Jan 6th
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“We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of...”
–  Ellen Goodman (via justbesplendid)
Jan 6th
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