Quote of the day The voice you hear in your head, the language you speak to yourself–that’s not just your voice or your language. Writing is less about finding your own voice than about figuring out how to say something someone. ~NOAH BERLATSKY, author of Wonder Woman CAREERS The magic of dreaming big, 99u TECHNOLOGY Now, anyone can buy a… View Post
Concerning The Spiritual in Art
Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), an influential Russian painter and art theorist, contains two parts and twelve illustrations. This short book tries to answer the question What is he trying to do?, question some of us formulate when we stand in front of an abstract painting. They say, ‘Kandinsky paints music’; he actually breaks down the barrier between music… View Post
MONDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: Automation Make Us Dumb
Quote of the day If we let our own skills fade by relying too much on automation, we are going to render ourselves less capable, less resilient and more subservient to our machines. We will create a world more fit for robots than for us. ~NICHOLAS CARR, author of The Shallows and The Glass Cage ECONOMY The battle between Netflix and… View Post
How to learn about ourselves for better relating to others
The ancient Greeks were the first to categorize individual personalities into broad types: Choleric (irritable and hot-tempered), Sanguine (passionate and courageous), phlegmatic (calm and unemotional), melancholic (prone to depression and despondency). While the Greek model was focused on nature, modern models focus more on nurture, like the 16 personality types of the Myers-Briggs test. I think personality profiles are valuable… View Post
WEEKEND LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: Kindness And Generosity Glue Couples Together
Quote of the day Science says lasting relationships come down to—you guessed it—kindness and generosity. ~ EMILY ESFAHANI RELATIONSHIPS Masters of Love, The Atlantic ACHIEVEMENT How trashing others holds you back, 99u PSYCHOLOGY We make our big life decisions at 29, 39, and so on, Science of us AMAZON Review Amazon Fire HDX 8.9, Wired TECHNOLOGY App predicts taste… View Post