Nota Beanie

Why I Stopped Working With Busy People

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:07:04 -0500

Why I Stopped Working With Busy People

yes and yes: Thoughts on Wasting Time

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:45:25 -0500

yes and yes: Thoughts on Wasting Time

"And then, I met a whole bunch of other people just like me. Fourteen others, in fact, not including..."

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:31:32 -0500

“

And then, I met a whole bunch of other people just like me. Fourteen others, in fact, not including Pam and Charlie. And I was home.

What I learned from the weekend cannot be summed up here, it cannot be bullet-pointed, and it sure as hell cannot be expressed in any coherent way except by my life and my actions and the way my world makes sense again. I met people who, by their love and their creativity and their innate them-ness, reminded me and retaught me that we were meant to live in community.

We need each other, and not just because we get lonely. We need each other because you can’t always see how amazing you are, but I can see it. We need each other because I can help you, but I can’t help myself – I need you for that.

”

- Love Lifted Me — antithete | a collection of awesome things, by a very caffeinated elf

Sam Sparro - Black and Gold (via islandrecords)

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:33:11 -0500

Sam Sparro - Black and Gold (via islandrecords)

kind over matter: you are writing the story of your only life

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:37:44 -0500

kind over matter: you are writing the story of your only life

"It seems that we all wear superhero cloaks that are invisible to us, but totally obvious to everyone..."

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:40:44 -0500

“

It seems that we all wear superhero cloaks that are invisible to us, but totally obvious to everyone else. And as I think about it now, it seems that this is a really good thing - it helps to protect us from arrogance and it means that you need other people to be able to discover and reveal your superpowers - just another reason why honest, real intimacy with other people is such a sacred, powerful thing.

…

It seems that our life purpose is something that we both decide and find, as if we’re co-creating it with the universe. And it seems that its not a once-off event. It’s an improvised process of making it up as you go, and then making it up again, and again, as opportunities around you change, as your relationships change and as you change. It’s a live, growing, evolving thing that is shaped by you but also has some life of its own and surprises you with unexpected twists and turns.

”

- How To Keep Moving And Creating What You Love When You Love Lots Of Things And You Don’t Have a Neat, Narrow Niche « Mine Your Resources

Le Love: prove

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:38:07 -0500

Le Love: prove

"They say, “Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.” I say,..."

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:52:58 -0500

“

They say, “Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.”

I say, “Bullshit.”

There will be work. It will feel like work, and you won’t necesarily whistle to it. But when you’re doing your own stuff—stuff that you thought up, that you believe in, that you dream about—work doesn’t feel anything like as bad. You know, in your heart, that you’re working on something you’ll have a long and happy relationship with. You also know that you, and not your jailer, reap the rewards for doing what you don’t want to do.

Doing that work creates energy instead of taking it away.

”

- Year of Hustle: Plan, Build, Ship, Market, Earn, Iterate

The Assault On Anywhen

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:12:13 -0500

The Assault On Anywhen:

This goes along nicely with my series on email (as in, “Dude, cut the expectation that I will be available to respond to you every hour of ever day.”) Chris Brogan’s article: The Assault on Anywhen

you have a right to be here

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:37:12 -0500

you have a right to be here

"I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of..."

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:01:57 -0500

“

I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear, he writes in a journal entry titled “Go Gently into That Good Night.” I hope to be spared as much pain as possible on the approach path. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for is the gift of intelligence, and for life, love, wonder, and laughter. You can’t say it wasn’t interesting. My lifetime’s memories are what I have brought home from the trip. I will require them for eternity no more than that little souvenir of the Eiffel Tower I brought home from Paris.

I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn’t always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.

”

- Roger Ebert: The Essential Man

Le Love: i’m waiting

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:43:21 -0500

Le Love: i’m waiting

kind over matter: to be brave

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:32:59 -0500

kind over matter: to be brave

LOST: the Island Valentine by *beavotron on deviantART

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:38:02 -0500

LOST: the Island Valentine by *beavotron on deviantART

Hannibal Lecter Hello Kitty Tattoo - Neatorama LOLz on the...

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:34:10 -0500

Hannibal Lecter Hello Kitty Tattoo - Neatorama

LOLz on the caption: “Despite the terrible combo, I can understand why someone might think it is a good idea to place these two characters together. They both possess true evil that is unimaginable to most of us, and obviously the world would be a better place if Hello Kitty was restrained in this fashion. However, trying to equate Hello Kitty to Hannibal Lecter is just plain wrong because, quite frankly, the evil feline is so much worse.”

"I’m a three-time (soon to be four-time) published author. When aspiring authors learn this,..."

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:45:41 -0500

“I’m a three-time (soon to be four-time) published author. When aspiring authors learn this, they invariably ask what word processor I use. It doesn’t fucking matter! I happen to write in Emacs. I also code in Emacs, which is a nice bonus. Other people write and code in vi. Other people write in Microsoft Word and code in TextMate+ or TextEdit or some fancy web-based collaborative editor like EtherPad or Google Wave. Whatever. Picking the right text editor will not make you a better writer. Writing will make you a better writer. Writing, and editing, and publishing, and listening — really listening — to what people say about your writing. This is the golden age for aspiring writers. We have a worldwide communications and distribution network where you can publish anything you want and — if you can manage to get anybody’s attention — get near-instant feedback. Writers just 20 years ago would have killed for that kind of feedback loop. Killed! And you’re asking me what word processor I use? Just fucking write, then publish, then write some more. One day your writing will get featured on a site like Reddit and you’ll go from 5 readers to 5000 in a matter of hours, and they’ll all tell you how much your writing sucks. And most of them will be right! Learn how to respond to constructive criticism and filter out the trolls, and you can write the next great American novel in edlin.”

- Mark Pilgrim on The Setup

"The reason no one watches or cares about the evening news anymore is because there are a great many..."

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:26:19 -0500

“The reason no one watches or cares about the evening news anymore is because there are a great many other ways to find your news. A weblog here, a Twitter status update there. In the deluge of information variety we’ve realized that the evening news is just one set of facts and just one carefully constructed story, and increasingly one with its own specific agenda. Who wants to be spoon-fed 30 minutes of ad-infested evening news when I can figure out what my world thinks is important by glancing at The Daily Show, Twitter, and NetNewsWire?”

- Rands In Repose: A Story Culture

It’s true: adding a lower-case “i” in front of...

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:33:36 -0500

It’s true: adding a lower-case “i” in front of anything makes it cool and hi-tech. Observe, the iMug.

iMug Cartoon | Savage Chickens - Cartoons on Sticky Notes by Doug Savage

I admit, this actually made me...

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:08:26 -0500

I admit, this actually made me sad.

narcolepticinsomniac:

thedailywhat:

xkcd.

fuck. that was depressing.

Yep. Nailed...

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:55:15 -0500

Yep. Nailed it!

pineappleupsidedown:

littlemissdorkette:breakingparadigms:9gag:sometimes I want to

This is true.