Justin Scott Childress

"Step by step, you make your way forward. That’s why practices such as daily writing exercises or..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:31:36 -0500

“Step by step, you make your way forward. That’s why practices such as daily writing exercises or keeping a daily blog can be so helpful. You see yourself do the work, which shows you that you can do the work. Progress is reassuring and inspiring; panic and then despair set in when you find yourself getting nothing done day after day. One of the painful ironies of work life is that the anxiety of procrastination often makes people even less likely to buckle down in the future.”

- The Pace of Productivity and How to Master Your Creative Routine | Brain Pickings

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"The secret of a full life is to live and relate to others as if they might not be there tomorrow, as..."

Thu, 02 May 2013 10:19:23 -0500

“The secret of a full life is to live and relate to others as if they might not be there tomorrow, as if you might not be there tomorrow. It eliminates the vice of procrastination, the sin of postponement, failed communications, failed communions. This thought has made me more and more attentive to all encounters. meetings, introductions, which might contain the seed of depth that might be carelessly overlooked. This feeling has become a rarity, and rarer every day now that we have reached a hastier and more superficial rhythm, now that we believe we are in touch with a greater amount of people, more people, more countries. This is the illusion which might cheat us of being in touch deeply with the one breathing next to us. The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision.”

- Anaïs Nin on the Meaning of Life & the Dangers of the Internet (1946) | Brain Pickings

and the hours after that: “People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 08:56:47 -0500

and the hours after that: “People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to...:

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“People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage. The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience. The…

"Science’s self-assumed responsibility has been self-limited to disclosure to society only of the..."

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:17:32 -0500

“Science’s self-assumed responsibility has been self-limited to disclosure to society only of the separate, supposedly physical (because separately weighable) atomic component isolations data. Synergetic integrity would require the scientists to announce that in reality what had been identified heretofore as physical is entirely metaphysical — because synergetically weightless. Metaphysical has been science’s designation for all weightless phenomena such as thought. But science has made no experimental finding of any phenomena that can be described as a solid, or as continuous, or as a straight surface plane, or as a straight line, or as infinite anything. We are now synergetically forced to conclude that all phenomena are metaphysical; wherefore, as many have long suspected — like it or not — life is but a dream.”

- Buckminster Fuller

dynamitehemorrhage: Teenage Mark Arm reviews MINOR THREAT’s...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:39:12 -0500

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Teenage Mark Arm reviews MINOR THREAT’s “Out of Step” EP in the pages of ATTACK fanzine #8, April 1983.

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"Truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this..."

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:57:55 -0500

““Truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast.””

- Melville

"Prestige is like a powerful magnet that warps even your beliefs about what you enjoy. It causes you..."

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:08:31 -0500

“Prestige is like a powerful magnet that warps even your beliefs about what you enjoy. It causes you to work not on what you like, but what you’d like to like.”

- Paul Graham

explore-blog: Lovely short film about Berlin’s urban cycling...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:34:20 -0500

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Lovely short film about Berlin’s urban cycling scene, a teaser for Gestalten’s book on bicycle culture and design.

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