When I turn off the radio, the last word I hear has to be a noun. No verbs, no prepositions, no adjectives—I need a noun, preferably a good, solid noun, something you can hold in your hands…I’d prefer to kick these tics altogether, but since that’s not going to happen without some time-consuming therapy, I’m delighted to learn about other people’s compulsions.
It took me three hours to choose a title and body font for my resume. Someone once told me being a graphic designer is like being a high functioning obsessive compulsive. I say it’s just sad when someone points out that your biggest ideas were already done. Sometimes the combinations of font faces on your resume is all you have left. Most of design is the right aesthetic in the right amount in the right place at the right time. That can take years.
There was a child on the 86 yesterday with his mom. He had a dandelion in his hand, and began asking things about it. Then he got into deeper and deeper philosophical questions. His mother was barely listening to him, frequently just grunting in response to the inquiries, and it took all of my strength not to shove her out of the way and conduct a conversation with this amazing 4 or 5 year-old. He was asking things like:Francois Jacob has pointed out that all of our explanatory systems, whether mythic, magic, or scientific, share a common principle. They all seek, in the words of physicist Jean Perrin, “to explain the complicated visible by some simple invisible.”
“What is beautiful in science,” said physicist Victor Weisskopf, “is the same thing that is beautiful in Beethoven.”
I am loving these art prints from Daniel Danger out of Western Massachusetts.
Why, Google?
One of Heidegger’s fundamental concepts: people don’t notice familiar, functional tools, but instead “see through” them to a task at hand, for precisely the same reasons that one doesn’t think of one’s fingers while tying shoelaces. The tools are us.
“The thing that does the thinking is bigger than your biological body,” he said. “You’re so tightly coupled to the tools you use that they’re literally part of you as a thinking, behaving thing.”
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We begin relationships by giving and giving with the idea that the investment will provide a return in the future. The other person taking from you gives you a feeling of importance. As the initial impulses wind down, relationships tend to dive into control dramas and we change into takers to get the same feeling of importance once derived from giving. True value can only be produced through active appreciation: choosing to notice the good in someone and making sure they know how you feel by doing things motivated by that appreciation.
