ktinka recommended Van Gogh and the importance of real stuff in a virtual world from amissingham.com:

One view of why physical stuff is important is held within a field of activity called “service design“. You think of the otherwise invisible hotel maid who has cleaned your room when you see the fold in the toilet paper roll, or the chocolate on your pillow. When your service is intangible (such as a design or online business), it’s even more important to manifest your unseeable service with physical objects.

ktinka recommended Neurologist Oliver Sacks on Memory, Plagiarism, and the Necessary Forgettings of Creativity from brainpickings.org:

Remembering is not the re-excitation of innumerable fixed, lifeless and fragmentary traces. It is an imaginative reconstruction, or construction, built out of the relation of our attitude towards a whole active mass of organized past reactions or experience. . . . It is thus hardly ever really exact.

ktinka recommended Louisa Heinrich – our quantified selves and the stories of our lives | NEXT Berlin from nextberlin.eu:

What is the soundtrack of you life? Even if you don’t have an answer, you understand the question. We all understand our lives in terms of a narrative. We all have stories in common. One of the reasons they’re so vital to us is that we all die – the y’re a way of coping, a tiny bit of immortality. That’s why we’re so addicted to things like Twitter and Instagram – they’re little stories. And that’s why we get so happy when someone we admire retweets or shares something we’ve created.

ktinka recommended Tattoo thinking from sethgodin.typepad.com:

So go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson and fix what doesn't work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate.

ktinka recommended Forbidden from brainpickings.org:

The old-fashioned idea that in-born genius is enough by itself without a solid foundation of knowledge, is the reason why [famous creators] set themselves against the use of this term and their pupils against the state. Without the rock of knowledge genius has no foundation to make it durable. In the words of Eugene Delacroix: ‘Natural gifts unsupported by culture may be said to resemble the honeysuckle, charming in its grace, but without odour, that I see hanging from the trees in the forest.’

ktinka recommended Summers Now Vs. Summers Then from thoughtcatalog.com:

Summers now have a way of speeding up, with each day a race to the finish. What moments there are must fit into deadlines. Days begin at nine and end at five. Rent is due on the 1st. Happy hour ends at seven. We’re so caught up with the quotidian routine that one minute it’s June and the next it’s August. We try to freeze moments with Instagram and Twitter but even those become replaced and forgotten.

ktinka recommended Creative Legend George Lois on Ideas as the Product of Discovery, Not Creation from brainpickings.org:

I don’t think I create anything. I’m really serious — I discover the ideas.

ktinka recommended You Are A Short Story, He Was A Novel from thoughtcatalog.com:

Because we are, after all, just a short story. A page. A paragraph. A typed word. We meander about, going nowhere.

ktinka recommended Seth's Blog from sethgodin.typepad.com:

Things that look like shortcuts are actually detours (disguised as less work).

ktinka recommended Take this simple marketing quiz from sethgodin.typepad.com:

The mass market is no longer. There is almost no room left for the next Procter & Gamble or Google. Instead, you are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.

ktinka recommended Christopher Isherwood > Quotes from goodreads.com:

“In another moment, when I had drunk exactly the right amount of champagne, I should have a vision. I took a sip. And now, with extreme clarity, without passion or malice, I saw what Life really is. It had something, I remember, to do with the revolving sunshade. Yes, I murmured to myself, let them dance. They are dancing, I am glad.”

ktinka recommended Why We Blog from thoughtcatalog.com:

The quest for permanence is what makes us tweet the set list right after the show. It causes us to announce every movie we watch, book we read, and to instantly review everything. Little by little, the camera in our brain and the pictures stored in our body’s memory have become antiquated. It is a romantic idea, but not a permanent one. The memories we store for ourselves fade. The context of the pictures is lost when we can’t explain it. So we created a hard record of ourselves using the most rock-solid, written-in-ink tool we have: the internet.

ktinka recommended You Are Perfect from thoughtcatalog.com:

The key to the secret is this: Nothing And Nobody Is Ugly. And if one is, then we all are. We are the Musketeers. We stand together in perfection. If one turns against the rest to deem that outfit hideous, or that hairstyle naff, or that gorgeous body fat, then we all become hideous and naff and fat. And not one hideous, naff, fat thing about us will have changed; we will own the hideous and the naff and the fat, because our hideous, naff, fat bits: They Are Perfect too.

ktinka recommended The Thing About All These New TV Shows About Girls from thoughtcatalog.com:

We may not be snowflakes, but we are all very different. The one thing we certainly have in common is how much we enjoy learning about each other. We’re teaching each other the truth about real women, and that education is helping to eliminate a lot of the crap we learned growing up. Regardless of what you might have heard, it’s actually a really great time to be a girl.

ktinka recommended I’m A Morning Person from thoughtcatalog.com:

I just know that I like to lounge around in the mornings and I like to take my time getting things done. There is nothing worse than being rushed and scrambling around to get things in order.