Chris Riddell, beautifully illustrates Neil Gaiman’s poem on the (feminist) beginnings of science. Here’s Part 1 & there’s Part 2. So wonderfully, beautifully, awsomely done! If you’ve never heard of it before, here’s a reading by Amanda Palmer. — via the ever awesome Maria Popova’s, Brain Pickings post. Update: Amanda Palmer has now, made a beautiful video of the poem! ...
It’s a quake book. It manages to fit a hundred thousand years of human life, into less than five hundred pages, filled with history, wit & philosophy. Page for page, this is one of the most wisdomous books I’ve ever read. This is how I imagine, Yuval Noah Harari acknowledging my compliment Thoughts and Insights abound I read past, before the impact of a line, two pages ago blinds me ...
Susan Fowler on guys & gals that want to flit from flower to flower, to want to have and learn and do all the things that interest us People tell me I can’t do all the things I want to do, and they are of course wrong, because I can and I do and I will. But I still can’t ever reach my greatest, deepest, most secret goal, the goal I left off that list: to have a singular passion. ...
It took me nearly eighteen months of reading and watching and slogging and poring over Cal Newport, Barb Oakley, Anders Ericsson, and Daniel Kahneman to figure out what überprof Derek Muller explains in just 12 minutes of blockblucksterness!. P.S. Just found out, it took Derek three years to make the video. I don’t feel so bad now :P
I lucked out when I met you on Feb 22nd, 1997 at my very first job interview. For all the photos I’ve shot of people, I still don’t have one of yours :) You’ve been my guilty secret :P While my life has been filled with turmoil, for the past fifteen years, you’ve been the one I counted on. You’ve always been my rock! You made sure work was a safe haven and a joy to do. ...
Don’t know how I missed this. All these years and she’s still rockin’ it! Glad I stumbled on this