The patience of a craftsman Here there is no mastery of unnameable creative processes, only the patience of a craftsman, chipping away slowly; the mastery of what is made does not lie in the depths of some impenetrable ego; it lies, instead, in the simple mastery of the steps in the process, and in the definition of these steps. Christopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building makingcraftpatience
A lifelong project One question that is still hard to answer after 10 years of working on Are.na is “what is the long term vision?” This is difficult for a few reasons. One reason is that we have to calibrate our definition of long term with the person who is asking the question. Are.na is a lifelong project. Our ideal outcome as a company is not becoming the next Facebook (god forbid), it’s becoming the next Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan, a hot spring hotel in Japan, and one of the world’s oldest businesses (founded in 705 AD). Charles Broskoski, On Motivation growthbusinesspatience
Don Quixote A Novel by Miguel de Cervantes www.amazon.com A distant fireWhen life is overStoriesArtificeDeceivers and deceptions+1 More absurdity
When life is over At the end, which is when life is over, death removes all the clothing that differentiated them, and all are equal in the grave. deathstatusending
Deceivers and deceptions Every day we see new things in the world: deceptions become the truth, and deceivers find themselves deceived. truth