who you are

When people don't know who they are, they can't possibly see the reality around them.

Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk

Jobs

When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and your job is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money.

That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact, and that is - everything around you that you call life, was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

The minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will, you know if you push in, something will pop out the other side, that you can change it, you can mold it. That's maybe the most important thing. It's to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.

I think that's very important and however you learn that, once you learn it, you'll want to change life and make it better, cause it's kind of messed up, in a lot of ways. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.

- Steve Jobs

Steady Early Parenting

Every life is difficult in its own way. But we do know that, in order to become self-confidant and capable adults, it helps enormously to have grown up with steady and predictable parents; parents who delighted in you, in your discoveries and explorations, parents who helped you organize your comings and goings and who served as role models for self-care and getting along with other people.

Extract from "The Body Keeps Score"
- Dr.Bessel Van Der Kolk

When the soup is ready, the soup is ready.

I would say one of my signature skills is making soup. I have learnt, as much in life, as in the art of making soup, the best results occur when letting things meld together, in its own sweet time. The best of time is not meant to be under estimated, pressured or forced. It will get the job done, but when it's simmered, savored, respected and then enjoyed, that's where the magic is! You know when things are naturally ready. Most of cooking is a keen sense of intuition and a practice of patience.

Bridget Bueche
Chef, California

Maeda

Four Things That I'm Thinking About Design In Tech

* Success is when Design receives the "Best Supporting Actor/Actress" prize instead of the award for the leading roles.

* If you agree with that thesis, then the art of partnering across an organization is the skill with the highest value by far for Design.

* And because Design is an inherently cross- and trans-disciplinary field, it's well positioned to succeed as the highest value-add partner.

* So in the proverbial 3-legged-stool of product-dev-design, it's better to think of design as more of a tail than a leg. Naturally, the tail adds balance and expression.

Exposure

Exposure and environment is the framework for the evolution of identity and cultivation of the self.

-lm

Tree

Can you make architecture that behaves like a tree?

Dr. Neri Oxman

Jay

I just like to see brown people being successful...

- Jay Shetty

Brain

The brain is a cultural organ - Experience shapes the brain.

- Ed Tronick

Lloyd

You never think about what you are owed. You always think about what you owe someone else..

Lloyd Blankfein

Sinek

The challenge of our unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of our accomplished past.

Sinek 

Real revolution

The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.

- Will and Ariel Durant