Are you inside the work or outside the work? It’s basically another way of talking about status and mastery, but I think it’s a nice shortcut. Where are you? Are you in it—actually doing the thing—or are you outside, staring at the finished product, obsessing over how other people are going to receive it? My new theory is this: the only real home is inside. That’s the only place you can actually live. ...
Blend vs Mix
I just want to give a big shout out to the word ‘blend.’ Coffee is a blend. I just made a blend when i took beans from two different bags and tossed it all into my grinder. That is a blend! The word blend is powerful. It is a marketing word. Imagine if you were paying for a ‘coffee mix’ - I would not pay top dollar for that. Blend though, now blend sounds good. ...
Ursula K. Le Guin Appreciation Post
I’m reading her book right now, No Time To Spare, and am filled with this familiar feeling of how it feels when you’re reading someone and just feel…seen. Understood, yes, but more than that, like your own way of understanding itself is being reflected back to you. Or, in other words, she’s just smart and I like how her brain moves ideas around, how it thinks and how she shares that thinking with the world. ...