This is reassuring
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I hope you smile at someone you don’t know today! Source: humansofnewyorkI found this man on 7th Avenue in Park Slope. He was leaning heavily on his cane, looking down, wearing a grimaced face. I felt bad for him, so I smiled and waved when I walked past. His face changed completely. He lit up, smiled wide, and gave me a cheery greeting. There was nothing forced about it. He seemed like a man who went through life looking for the smallest excuses to be happy.
I walked 50 feet down the sidewalk, turned around, and walked back to him. “I want to take your photo,” I told him, “because of how big you smiled when I walked by.”
He said: “Well I saw someone smiling at me who I didn’t even know. So I thought: ‘By God! I Better do something!’”
Source: fancyhandsIra Glass on bridging the importance of practice to bridge the gap between what you want to create, and what you have the skills to create
From filmmaker Yuvi Zalkow comes a funny-cause-it’s-true meditation on the tyranny of the disconnect between our intention and our capacity for consuming intelligent information. Also see Megan Garber on read-it-later bookmarking as guilt-relieving anti-engagement. For an antidote, see Clay Johnson’s motion for a smarter information diet.
It’s embarrassing how much unjust want to star these to read later (or never)
Source: explore-blog
Leo B offers some simple, sensible steps to create good habits out of bad ones
(start small)
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I came across this incredible virtual tour of the Sistine Chapel today. It’s from 2010 and presents an amazing (and tourist free) look inside the building.
To create the 365-degree view, a team from Villanova University was given unprecedented access to the chapel over five nights to compile the necessary images. According to the university’s press release, “several thousand photographs were taken with an advances motorize camera right and then digitally stitched together”. The result is a stunning high-resolution tour of one of the world’s most famous buildings.
The building was consecrated on August 15, 1483 and named after Pope Sixtus IV della Rovere. It wasn’t until 1508, however, that Michelangoelo was tasked with painting the now famous ceiling. According to the Vatican’s website, he finished it in 1512.
Take some time and discover this amazing piece of history.
—Savy
I had no idea it was so bg & had so many figures. I thought it was just god touching man.
Source: vatican.va
Months after the first protesters arrived in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street continues to fuel tech innovation. Several weeks ago, #OWS sympathizers created a “People’s Skype”; meanwhile, a hackathon held this weekend uncovered previously unknown parallels with the Arab Spring. These developments are just the latest in a string of new products and tools that have come out of the movement.
Show them THAT when people say this is all “unemployed dirty hippies”. Awesome.
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Rumours of my business’ demise were apparently exaggerated. I took on a new client the very next day, and am actually succeeding in doing work for them.
It’s not easy. The fear of doing it wrong gets in the way of the doing of many things. Not a new phenomenon for me, but a freakin’ pain in the patootie all the same.
But I’m trying to push forward, at whatever pace is possible for me now and that will be enough. I hope.
I’ve decided to bring in my shingle and put my business on hiatus. Ironic, because I have my first proper paying clients this month. But every step is such a battle with myself & my fear of failure. This tortuous path isn’t the right one for me. I can be so productive when I’m in a team and feel responsible to others and that’s just not how I feel working for myself.
So I’m grieving, and fear the job search, but am also looking forward to finding a way to make money that actually makes me happy more often.
