The Orange and the Egg
This made me happy. Then sad.
This is a page from The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Visual Micro-Tales of Our Shared Humanity.
via Brain Pickings
Author: Jonathan Frei
Attention is the most valuable and limited resource
Attention is the most valuable and limited resource
Jason Fried :
Every day you spend more time, and tomorrow you have less than you had yesterday. You can’t make more, and you can’t really buy more, so it’s limited and fleeting and those are the rules.
But there’s something even more limited than time. It’s your attention. Attention is a subset of time, therefore it’s more limited. How you spend your attention is more important than how you spend your time.
This is the 1,000th post
I should do something special for my 1,00th post. But I’m not going to. This is it.
The Coffees:
There are so many potential vices in the world over which one must exert self control: Drinking, food, gambling, etc. These are all fine in moderation, but shouldn’t be over-indulged in lest they become deleterious to health and happiness.
But can’t coffee just be something we drink as much as we want, with no underlying guilt or fear of abuse? COFFEE IS SO DAMN GOOD. The way it flows through your belly and into your veins, making life more vibrant — more full. It is a peerless beverage.
It might be time to add Taipei to the list of vacation destinations.
Super Moon with Taipei 101 (by Chih-Jan Fan)
The Scream by Edvard Munch
According to Munch, he was inspired to paint this scene as he was walking in a boardwalk with tow of his companions. As he stopped and his companions walked on, he looked up at the blood red sky and felt a “the scream of nature” moving through him.
Renaud Garcia-Fons: Tiny Desk Concert : NPR
I’ve listened to this three times now. Garcia-Fons plays the double bass like a Spanish guitar.
(Source: http://www.npr.org/)