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  • If I had The Sads

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    Back before COVID-19 hit the global scene, I thought it would be pleasant to have a list of the good things in life. This list wouldn’t be an exhaustive account of all the checked boxes on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, but rather would document small pleasures which evoke some kind of clear and specific emotional response. If I had The Sads, I could pull up this list and sink down into the sensory details of, say, that strong hit of pine scent you randomly get on a hiking trail.

    Now that we’re all in the thick of this pandemic, this new tiny side project—Good Things—has offered me a peaceful little portal to things I miss. Your mileage may vary, but I’ve found that reading my personal list of good things can be comforting as I help protect my community by sheltering in place.

    Melanie Richards, Good Things
    melanie-richards.com
    1. ​​Five Nice Things​​
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  • Significant everywhere

    Writing isn't a conveyor belt bearing the reader to "the point" at the end of the piece, where the meaning will be revealed.
    Good writing is significant everywhere,
    Delightful everywhere.

    Verlyn Klinkenborg, Several Short Sentences About Writing
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  • An equivalence

    In both early Christianity and Islam, theologians made a claim about architecture likely to sound so peculiar to modern ears as to be worth of sustained examination: they proposed that beautiful buildings had the power to improve us morally and spiritually. They believed that, rather than corrupting us, rather than being an idle indulgence for the decadent, exquisite surroundings could edge us towards perfection. A beautiful building could reinforce our resolve to be good.

    Behind this distinctive claim lay another astonishing belief: that of an equivalence between the visual and ethical realms.

    Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness
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  • If you look for the light

    If you look for the light,
    you can often find it.
    But if you look for the dark,
    that is all you will ever see.

    — Uncle Iroh

    The Legend of Korra
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  • Words which are things

    I have not loved the world, nor the world me;
    I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed
    To its idolatries a patient knee,—
    Nor coined my cheek to smiles, nor cried aloud
    In worship of an echo; in the crowd
    They could not deem me one of such; I stood
    Among them, but not of them; in a shroud
    Of thoughts which were not their thoughts, and still could,
    Had I not filed my mind, which thus itself subdued.

    I have not loved the world, nor the world me,—
    But let us part fair foes; I do believe,
    Though I have found them not, that there may be
    Words which are things,—hopes which will not deceive,
    And virtues which are merciful, nor weave
    Snares for the falling: I would also deem
    O'er others' griefs that some sincerely grieve;
    That two, or one, are almost what they seem,—
    That goodness is no name, and happiness no dream.

    Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
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  • Asking yourself some questions

    All of the moves that we make in space will tend toward being in accord with this phenomenon of wholeness / beauty / life if we’re willing to bring the requisite level of care to the doing of our work.

    Alexander says that each of us possess the means for accessing this order within ourselves and — here’s where he loses most other architects and many in the so-called sciences in academia — he contends that what we’re connecting with inside of ourselves is an objective criterion for what good means.

    Applying the criterion is easy: you ask yourself some questions:

    With any action you might take with regard to placement, and with regard to the situatedness of things in space you ask yourself: does this move increase wholeness / beauty / life?

    Does the intervention you’re taking intensify the feelings of wholeness in you as the maker when you are performing the work?

    How does your work on this one part enhance what’s going on among wholes at the system level?

    Dan Klyn, What Good Means
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  • The Nature of Order

    A Book by Christopher Alexander
    www.natureoforder.com
    1. ​​Levels of Scale​​
    2. ​​Strong Centers​​
    3. ​​Boundaries​​
    4. ​​Alternating Repetition​​
    5. ​​Positive Space​​
    1. ​​Strength from both mass and form​​
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  • Finding nourishment vs. identifying poison

    An Article by Austin Kleon & Olivia Laing
    austinkleon.com

    A useful analogy for what [Sedgwick] calls ‘reparative reading’ is to be fundamentally more invested in finding nourishment than identifying poison. This doesn’t mean being naive or undeceived, unaware of crisis or undamaged by oppression. What it does mean is being driven to find or invent something new and sustaining out of inimical environments.

    I would like to adopt that line as a mission statement: “To be fundamentally more invested in finding nourishment rather than identify poison.”

    Because you can identify all the poison you want, but if you don’t find nourishment, you’ll starve to death.

    1. ​​Poison sniffers​​
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  • The amorality of Web 2.0

    An Essay by Nicholas Carr
    www.roughtype.com

    The Internet is changing the economics of creative work – or, to put it more broadly, the economics of culture – and it’s doing it in a way that may well restrict rather than expand our choices. Wikipedia might be a pale shadow of the Britannica, but because it’s created by amateurs rather than professionals, it’s free. And free trumps quality all the time.

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  • The Cycle of Goodness

    An Idea by Tadao Yoshida
    ykknorthamerica.com

    The CYCLE OF GOODNESS® is the corporate philosophy established by YKK’s founder, Tadao Yoshida, who believed that “no one prospers without rendering benefit to others.” It expresses the basic belief of the YKK Group. Tadao Yoshida firmly believed that business belongs to society. As an important member of society, a company survives through coexistence. When the benefits are shared, the value of the company’s existence will be recognized by society. When pursuing his business, Mr. Yoshida was most concerned with that aspect and would find a path leading to mutual prosperity. He believed that using ingenuity and inventiveness in business activities and constantly creating new value would lead to the success of clients and business partners and make it possible to contribute to society. This type of reasoning is referred to as the CYCLE OF GOODNESS® and has always served as the foundation of our business activities.

    1. ​​Why YKK zippers are the brown M&Ms of product design​​
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  • Artifice, blindness, and suicide

    A Quote
    en.wikipedia.org

    The first step is to measure whatever can be easily measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can't be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't important. This is blindness. The fourth step is to say that what can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide.

    1. ​​The McNamara fallacy​​
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    Daniel Yankelovich, "Corporate Priorities: A continuing study of the new demands on business" (1972).

  • Doing It Right

    An Article by Brad Frost
    bradfrost.com

    Doing it right requires a different pace of working and a much broader thought process than “ok, let’s get this thing out the door.” Which is super tough because most workplaces place a huge emphasis on getting things out the door, and fast. Little agile tickets that are expected to be completed in micro sprints to me seem to be antithetical to doing it right.

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