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It’s like any other meditative practice. Sometimes you have better days than others. Sometimes you can clear your mind. Or like yoga, you know? Sometimes the body is working for you, you can get your breathing right, and sometimes not. It depends upon what’s happening in your life, but it’s your job to be consistent with the practice.

Jason Reynolds
Collected Stories of Theodore Sturgeon
Collected Stories of Theodore Sturgeon

When I work, I tell myself, “Don’t have specific plans.” I’m always really careful when I talk about my work to not say what it means because one should not know what it means. This became fundamental for me. I should never ever know what it means or what it does. I should just know where it comes from. This is what took me a long time to understand, but it’s what I needed to make work.

I found a poetic reason for that because the song was written in a dark crevice in the middle of the night in Japan, so it was that claustrophobic feeling of being in a tiny canyon.

An artist's guide to financial planning
An artist's guide to financial planning
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World Cal Newport, 2016
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in…
Donna Haraway, "Making Oddkin: Story Telling for Earthly Survival"
Donna Haraway, "Making Oddkin: Story Te… 

No. I mean, I write titles. But no, I don’t really write, write, write, write. I find it extremely painful. I would love to, but I just find it so painful. I collect more. I collect language or phrases that I like, or words, even if I’m not really sure why.

As I was moving ahead occasionally I saw brief glimpses of beauty
As I was moving ahead occasionally I sa… 
Paris is Burning
Paris is Burning
Gamelife
Gamelife
The Human Condition
The Human Condition
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