Sayings.

I am deliberate.

The spirit cannot be stilled. If it is stilled, it is dead.

Clothing is a prop that makes the self.

Aura and nimbus seduce, not great big Signs.

“Design” is a refugee concept, an idea for refugees.

A toilet at home is just a toilet, but in a museum, it can be art.

The discourse of now will be quite unrecognizable and irrelevant to the world of ten years after.

The contents should dictate the forms in creative writing, not the other way around.

Teach in the affirmative.

Form is very important. Even slight variations matter.

Somehow, through the disingenuous mistake and through wabisabi, things become more realistic, less plastic, more human, more loveable.

Faith in oneself and in one’s agency for being deliberate provide the basso continuo which sustains and unifies our sputtering composition called life.

As much as we’d like to believe we are living in the present, we are always living in the past.

True courage is the willingness to live life as a fiction.

A true optimist is not one who wants greatness, but one who always finds it.

Philosophy is most heart-felt when it is given with all its warts and crudeness exposed.

What seemed imprudent in the moment looks in retrospect to be the courageous and adventurous deed.

It is quite easy to mock dead people and dead cultures, and to dress them posthumously in different clothes.

That which is not completely knowable is powerful.

Power is uncircumscribability.

Insight hides in unusual places – I know it is a platitude, but a platitude I can testify to.

Polished ideas always sit beyond and above criticism, but the danger is that that place is also above the reader’s embrace, above the humanity which readers expect in their author.

Many of the good new ideas are, in many cases, just slight modifications or twists on old well-established bad ideas.

A word’s meaning is not its definition; a word’s meaning is the whole sphere of insinuation, coincidence and connotation which surround it.

First science betrays truth, then truth betrays science.

Perspectivism shows us that the root of all hate is love for something else.

Wither the future battles of humankind?
I believe they will increasingly
be fought in the aesthetic plane.

Memories are never a read-only memory, no matter how hard we might try.

1. UI Design is how it looks.
2. UX Design is how it works.
And 3. Product Design is why it should work the way it does.

Taste, at its heart is about expressing the self - our personality, philosophy, modus operandi, but MUCH OF THE TASTE CODE IS ERROR CHECKING, VALIDATION CODE, to prove that what is communicated is authentic.

Some academic papers you just refer to casually, while others you cite passages from and you talk about multiple times. I call this a deep citation.

Surrender is a doing that is actually an undoing.
Undoing our resistance to being our True Nature.

Words are spells. Words used well are white magic.
Used badly are black magic. Words are how we Create.

Sound is the firmware of consciousness.

My mind doesn’t lack attention. It has an abundance of it.
It flows like A-star search, choosing the next node by what glows.

in 2004, 22 years ago, I started vibe coding

until only the current remains,
and you are no longer the wave
but the water itself.