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“What we did: love. We did not spend our days gazing into each other’s eyes. We did that gazing when we made love or when one of us was in trouble, but most of the time our gazes met and entw...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/12/the-third-thing.html

– Add energy to every conversation – Ask why – Find obsolete things on your task list and remove them – Treat customers better than they expect – Offer to help co-workers before they as...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/09/missing-from-your-job-description-2.html

Focus on what you can control. You control how you respond to things. Ask yourself, “Is this essential?” Meditate on your mortality every day. Value time more than money/possessions. You are ...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/09/50-short-rules-for-a-better-life-from-the-stoics.html

“Around the world, people create amazing experiences and opportunities. When they do, energetically, it becomes available to everyone. Think of it as a universal database of Creative Consciousn...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/06/a-universal-data-base-of-positive-intentions.html

A garden is a collection of evolving ideas that aren’t strictly organised by their publication date. They’re inherently exploratory – notes are linked through contextual associations. They ...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/06/a-brief-history-ethos-of-the-digital-garden.html

“…as I wander the internet, I wonder where the digital gardens are that will connect me to fellow gardeners more deeply. More often than not, the digital gardens of today are botanic—privat...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/06/digital-gardens.html

Thank you David Spinks for sharing this graphic and introducing me to the term “The Cozy Web”. He got it from this article: The Dark Forest and the Cozy Web

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/04/the-cozy-web.html

Tom Hodgkinson and a group of around 15 authors, artists, and teachers came up with a “Manifesto for Slow Learning,” which includes a “Bill of Rights” for the slow learner. (Start each of...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/03/slow-learning.html

“It scales better than competitiveness, frustration, pettiness, regret, revenge, merit (whatever that means) or apathy. Kindness ratchets up. It leads to more kindness. It can create trust and ...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/03/kindness-scales.html

“The body is everywhere assaulted by all of our new media, a state which has resulted in deep disorientation of intellect and destabilization of culture throughout the world. In the age of dise...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/03/disembodied-communication.html

“The African view is that a person is a person through other persons. My humanity is caught up with your humanity, and when your humanity is enhanced — whether I like it or not — mine is en...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/02/i-am-because-we-are.html

“Chuck Jones, the brilliant animator who conceived of this most clever depiction of the banality and inevitability of repeated failure in the modern world, actually had “Rules” for the Coyo...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/01/the-nine-rules-of-wile-e-coyote.html

Thank you Joe Edelman for sharing this thoughtful piece on rebuilding society on meaning! “If we want to make meaningful things, we have to measure meaning.”

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/01/rebuilding-society-on-meaning.html

…There are two kinds of quantities in the world. Stock is a static value: money in the bank or trees in the forest. Flow is a rate of change: fifteen dollars an hour or three thousand toothpick...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/01/stock-and-flow-2.html

“The so-called black sheep of the family are, in fact, hunters born of paths of liberation into the family tree. The members of a tree who do not conform to the norms or traditions of the famil...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/01/the-black-sheep-of-the-family.html

Hi tweeps, I'm prepping for my intro class. Can anyone recommend (deep breath) a good, critical, introductory reading on Art + AI ? — Golan Levin (@golan) January 17, 2023 Interesting article r...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/01/good-critical-introductory-reading-to-art-ai.html

1. Finding your true self is an act of love. Expressing it is an act of rebellion. 2. A sign of growth is having more tolerance for discomfort. But it’s also having less tolerance for bullshit....

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2022/12/22-nuggets-of-wisdom-from-cory-muscara.html

“Tightness erodes clarity. Tightness reduces expansion. Tightness broadens fear, scarcity, and the feeling of being powerless. Tightness keeps me wound in my own Small Self, forgetting entirely...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2022/11/staying-soft-vs-tightening.html

“Patience, I believe, is a core competency of a healthy civilization.” – Stewart Brand

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2022/10/patience-4.html

Deeply moved by this thorough and generous article on the magic of CreativeMornings, my biggest labor of love. In case you’re not familiar with CreativeMornings: It’s the world’s largest fa...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2022/10/connection-on-a-global-scale.html

“The body of work you’re creating adds up over time. The consistency and empathy of your vision will seep through. Drip by drip, you’ll create something worth noticing.” – Crickets by S...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2022/08/something-worth-noticing.html

“Audience capture is an irresistible force in the world of influencing, because it’s not just a conscious process but also an unconscious one. While it may ostensibly appear to be a simple ca...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2022/08/audience-capture.html

“Everyone knows how productive you can be when you’re avoiding something. We are currently experiencing the civilizational equivalent of that anxiety you feel when you have something due the ...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2022/07/the-american-scam.html

A lovely piece on colors of coffee and Tiramisu.

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2022/01/color-and-coffee.html

This article on What Makes People Look Like Their Pets? by Jesse Bering made me chuckle.

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2021/12/what-makes-people-look-like-their-pets.html

My heart is overflowing with all of the feelings: The story of CreativeMornings is featured in an article on Oprah today. Thank you Jon Levy for generously writing an entire chapter about us in y...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2021/10/creativemornings-on-oprah.html

“Serious iPhone photographers have been able to shoot in RAW for some time via third-party apps like Halide. But what makes the new ProRAW feature special is that you don’t need to use anothe...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2021/08/how-to-use-proraw-on-your-iphone-12-pro.html

I am in awe of Yoann Bourgeois’s ability to create magic through dance.

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2021/06/yoann-bourgeois.html

This article on how many close friendships one can maintain just made me block out time on my calendar today to map out my friends. What an excellent and thought provoking read. These two facts m...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2021/05/close-friendships.html

I am wildly fascinated by this graphic, found in an article called The Zodiac Man. Image credits: A woodcut recreation of an image by A. G. de Brocar, 1495, in Johannes de Ketham’s Libro de med...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2021/05/the-zodiac-man.html

“Many workers won’t be returning to an office anytime soon, but having them relocate their efforts entirely to their homes for the long run might be unexpectedly misery-inducing and unproduct...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2021/05/work-from-near-home.html

“Languishing is a sense of stagnation and emptiness. It feels as if you’re muddling through your days, looking at your life through a foggy windshield. And it might be the dominant emotion of...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2021/04/theres-a-name-for-the-blah-youre-feeling.html

A goal that isn’t too important makes you live in the moment, and still gives you a driving force. This driving force is a way to get around the fact that we will all die and there is no real p...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2021/03/arbitrary-stupid-goal.html

Read the article that goes with the above video here.

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2021/03/success-at-school-vs-success-in-life-2.html

“Generosity sometimes involves personal sacrifice, but it is a sacrifice that feels different than cheap dental floss. “Generous generosity” can actually move us more toward embracing uncer...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2021/02/with-a-spirit-of-generosity.html

Beautiful Read: Dignity, Daring, and Disability: The pioneering queer composer and defiant genius Ethel Smyth on making music while going deaf. Thank you Maria!

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2021/01/ethel-smyth.html

As individuals, if we want to be creative, we need to give ourselves space to play and experiment without a set agenda. Amos Tversky famously said that the secret to doing good work is being a li...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2021/01/jootsing-the-key-to-creativity.html

1. Remind yourself that time is valuable and once it’s spent you absolutely can’t get it back. 2. Ask yourself: “Would I be willing to do this thing tomorrow?” It’s easy to sign yoursel...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2020/10/5-step-road-map-for-saying-no.html

“Social skills are like any other kind of ability in that they require practice.” Smith writes in the latest edition of her newsletter, Inside Your Head. “And by this point in the pandemic,...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2020/10/awkward.html

Level 1: Ritual Level 2: Extended Ritual Level 3: Content (or Surface) Level 4: Feelings About Content Level 5: Feelings About Each Other Interesting read: Richard Francisco’s Five Levels of Co...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2020/10/5-levels-of-communication.html