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Jon Gold on Twitter: “This year, I ask: What would you do, if this-you was the you with permission? If this-you was worthy? If this-you was the you that chose curiosity over fear? If this-you prioritized finding out over never knowing? If this-you chose the path of most interestingness?”

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“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”

— Ernest Hemingway

They have explored new territory with a spirit of dedication and adventure that another artist, Eva Hesse, described in 1969 as “total risk, freedom, discipline.”

Our lives are a string of experiences with people and with things. The quality of those experiences determine the quality of our lives.

– Aral Balkan

Boondoggle 

boon·dog·gle 

noun

1. a product of simple manual skill, as a plaited leather cord for the neck or a knife sheath, made typically by a camper or a scout.
2. work of little or no value done merely to keep or look busy.
3. a project funded by the federal government out of political favoritism that is of no real value to the community or the nation.

The best way of predicting the future is to invent it.

– Alan Kay

I think one has to be an optimist about the future because I think it’s silly to adopt any other position.

– Douglas Adams