Inspiration
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Hemingway’s Advice for Coders
I’m an avid reader of Brain Pickings (check it out if you haven’t heard of it), and one thing caught my attention a few weeks ago. In the mid-1930’s a young writer by the name of Arnold Samuelson caught up with his hero, Ernest Hemingway. Rather then cast him away, Hemingway took him on as a sort of… Continue reading
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Adam Phillips on Missing Out
We refer to them as our unlived lives because somewhere we believe that they were open to us; but for some reason and we might spend a great deal of our lived lives trying to find and give the reason they were not possible. And what was not possible all too easily becomes… Continue reading
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Craig Mod On Books
To return to a book is to return not just to the text but also to a past self. We are embedded in our libraries. To reread is to remember who we once were, which can be equal parts scary and intoxicating. Other services such as Timehop offer ways to return to past photos or… Continue reading
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Ranier Maria Rilke
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks the work for which all other work is but preparation. Ranier Maria Rilke, A letter to a friend Continue reading