“Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” – George Orwell
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Weekly Design Links – 05/10/22
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov
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Weekly Design Links – 05/03/22
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.” ― Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means
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Weekly Design Links – 04/26/22
“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.” ― Allen Saunders
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Weekly Design Links – 04/19/22
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.” ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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Weekly Design Links – 04/12/22
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
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Weekly Design Links – 04/05/22
“We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience very time. It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Apocalypse
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Weekly Design Links – 03/29/22
“Criticizing is easy and fast. Creating is difficult and slow. The two hours you spent on a book or movie usually took two years to produce. Anyone can tear down someone else’s work. The true test of insight is whether you can help them improve it or build something of your own.” – Adam Grant
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Reading Challenge Review 2021
Recap of my reading for the 2020 Goodreads Reading Challenge. I read 46 Books this year. Again, I’m gonna blame the pandemic–here’s the highlights.
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Weekly Design Links – 03/22/22
“That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.”
― Dave Grohl