andrewSTEPHENgoodrich

"stay beautiful. find strength. revel in love for yourself and others who matter. make the most of..."

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:17:07 -0500

“stay beautiful. find strength. revel in love for yourself and others who matter. make the most of your presence, make it felt. be kind. dream sweetly.”

- http://is.gd/ddkAM

(via davidhoffman)

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 12:39:12 -0500

(via davidhoffman)

"What have you done with your connection skills that has been worthy of criticism, that moved the..."

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:23:30 -0500

“What have you done with your connection skills that has been worthy of criticism, that moved the dial and that changed the world?”

- But what have you shipped? by Seth Godin

Have Conversations

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:20:20 -0500

“I’m a business owner and don’t want my business to be listed on Yelp - can I have it removed from Yelp?

Actually, no. Consumers have the right to talk about what they like (and don’t like) about a meal they ate, a plumber that they hired, or a car wash that they visited. The law is clear on this point — even if you’ve registered your business name as a trademark — so your best bet is to engage with your fans and critics alike, and hear what they have to say.”

sickeninglysweet: Ways to be cool. (via perlorian)

Thu, 20 May 2010 13:39:18 -0500

sickeninglysweet:

Ways to be cool.

(via perlorian)

"It’s very dear to me, the issue of gay marriage. Or as I like to call it: ‘marriage.’ You know,..."

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:20:01 -0500

““It’s very dear to me, the issue of gay marriage. Or as I like to call it: ‘marriage.’ You know, because I had lunch this afternoon, not gay lunch. I parked my car; I didn’t gay park it.””

- Liz Feldman (via jennipoos)

"They’ll say you’re crazy. They’ll say, “I wish I could be as impulsive as you are,” and that you..."

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:53:39 -0500

“They’ll say you’re crazy. They’ll say, “I wish I could be as impulsive as you are,” and that you should grow up. Life isn’t like that – there are norms, you know. There are ways to do things. You don’t talk to people at the security line at the airport. You get through it as fast as possible, go to your gate, wait for them to board you, sit down and be quiet. You go to your job, bust your ass, go home, change, go to some social thing, entertain the same questions, go home, watch bad television and do it all over again. Polite, proper, efficient. That’s life, right? Then you get old and maybe play some golf, then you die.”

- http://gapingvoid.com/2010/03/31/remember-who-you-are-a-v-flox/

"Moreover, it happens fairly often that essence dies in a man while his personality and his body are..."

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:30:25 -0500

“Moreover, it happens fairly often that essence dies in a man while his personality and his body are still alive. A considerable percentage of the people we meet in the streets of a great town are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead.”

- http://gapingvoid.com/2010/04/06/remember-yourself/

"Since starting the project at the beginning of the year, over 18,000 people have logged in to the..."

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:00:14 -0500

“Since starting the project at the beginning of the year, over 18,000 people have logged in to the site to write 750 words. Over 46,000 days have been completed… meaning that there are over 46,000 days of 750 words or more. 41,819,906 words have been written.”

- Enjoymentland » 100 day streak on 750 words

Wow. That is great.

(via davidhoffman)

"When design reaches a certain threshold of simplicity it changes our relationship to it. It’s not..."

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:41:41 -0500

“When design reaches a certain threshold of simplicity it changes our relationship to it. It’s not clear how this works, as it doesn’t happen very often, but at some point we start thinking about what we’re doing differently. The design we’re using fades away, our experience improves dramatically, and the activity we’re doing becomes primary. This is as it should be.”

- 52 Weeks of UX: Finding Flow (via davidhoffman)

"Instead of trying to remove discomfort from the process, my new goal is to get more comfortable..."

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:33:52 -0500

““Instead of trying to remove discomfort from the process, my new goal is to get more comfortable being uncomfortable. After all, great art is born at the fray of normalcy; reaching into the unknown is always a bit scary. And too, have the courage to let other people (the right people) into the process. It’s difficult to create something new and other worldly when creating in a vacuum. And most important (most obvious and often overlooked) let the team know and feel their value.””

- Jacob Detering - Red Pill Music

Photo

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:13:53 -0500

I’ve been trying hard to prevent this. Perhaps too hard.

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:12:46 -0500

I’ve been trying hard to prevent this. Perhaps too hard.

This is an incredible video of a trip down Market Street (San...

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:58:08 -0500

This is an incredible video of a trip down Market Street (San Francisco) in 1905 (before the fires/earthquake).

"The lessons we learn from the wild become the etiquette of freedom. We can enjoy our humanity with..."

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:32:44 -0600

“

The lessons we learn from the wild become the etiquette of freedom. We can enjoy our humanity with its flashy brains and sexual buzz, its social cravings and stubborn tantrums, and take ourselves as no more and no less than another being in the Big Watershed. We can accept each other all as barefoot equals sleeping on the same ground. We can give up hoping to be eternal and quit fighting dirt. We can chase off mosquitoes and fence out varmints without hating them. No expectations, alert and sufficient, grateful and careful, generous and direct. A calm and clarity attend us in the moment we are wiping the grease off our hands between tasks and glancing up at the passing clouds. Another joy is finally sitting down to have coffee with a friend. The wild requires that we learn the terrain, nod to all the plants and animals and birds, ford teh streams and cross the ridges, and tell a good story when we get back home.

And when the children are safe in bed, at one of the great holidays like the Fourth of July, New Year’s, or Halloween, we can bring out some spirits and turn on the music, and the men and the women who are still among the living can get loose and really wild. So that’s the final meaning of “wild” - the esoteric meaning, the deepest and most scary. Those who are ready for it will come to it. Please do not repeat this to the uninitiated.

”

- Gary Snyder, Practice of the Wild

"Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, “This is an interesting world I find myself in,..."

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:16:58 -0600

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Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, “This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in, fits me rather neatly, doesn’t it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!”

This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it’s still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything’s going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.

”

- Douglas Adams

"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:14:43 -0600

““Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.””

- NYT: Slumburbia

Remind me to write a book or two about this quote sometime.

Josh Charles, Captains, Sol Giant

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:18:16 -0600

Josh Charles, Captains, Sol Giant:

“Soul went into hiding in the arid decade that has thusfar made up the 21st Century. No grease, no gris-gris, no grits, no groceries, no nuttin’.”

Peter Gabriel covering Bon Iver’s...

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:54:01 -0600

Peter Gabriel covering Bon Iver’s “Flume”.

Hauntingly beautiful.

"What I think I’m most looking forward to, beyond the emergence of music/art that never would have..."

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:18:06 -0600

“What I think I’m most looking forward to, beyond the emergence of music/art that never would have emerged prior to this Leveling, is the lack of excuses that will exist. At whom will artists point their fingers when their art isn’t greeted with the commercial success they feel it deserves? Since forever the artists’ fingers have wagged at: the label, the distributor, the publicist, the radio person, the web designer, the booking agent, the management … pretty much everyone but themselves.”

- George Howard

http://www.9giantsteps.com/?p=1104