Most of our life is spent chasing the person we think we’re supposed to become, until one day, we wake up and realize who we are.
Did the billion little choices it’s estimated we make in a life guide us there?
Or was it always meant to be?
As always, your mileage may vary, so use what’s useful. Discard the rest.
Written by a creative technologist, photographer, and an evolving human living in Japan—enhanced (and tangled) by technology.
“I have faith in humanity. I just don’t trust people. :)” — Me (but I’m sure I’m not the first)
As always, you may view it differently, so take what works, discard the rest.
Written by a creative technologist, photographer, and an evolving human living in Japan—enhanced (and tangled) by technology.
Plan for order and you’ll be destroyed by chaos. Prepare for chaos and you’ll thrive in any condition. — Sahil Bloom, *The Curiosity Chronicle*, Jan 7, 2025
From: 34 Life Lessons from 34 Years – Sahil Bloom
As always, your mileage may vary, so use what’s helpful. Discard the rest.
Written by a creative technologist, photographer, and an evolving human living in Japan—enhanced (and tangled) by technology.
The body accumulates time, but it doesn’t let it out. — Ishiuchi Miyako, Photographer
I love this quote from a recent documentary I watched:
As always, your mileage may vary, so use what’s helpful. Discard the rest.✌️
#quotes #photography #philosophy
Written by a creative technologist, photographer, and an evolving human living in Japan—enhanced (and tangled) by technology.
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” — Stephen Hawking
The irony about “wisdom” with age, is that you question what you think you know more than ever.
Sometimes what we know blocks us from being open to the idea that we might be wrong about what we know…
…and that quiet resistance can keep us from seeing the obvious, the new, or even the truth hiding in plain sight.
So, I guess I’m say, the older I get, the less I think I know.
As always, your mileage may vary, so use what’s helpful. Discard the rest.✌️
Written by a creative technologist, photographer, and an evolving human living in Japan—enhanced (and tangled) by technology.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. —Francis Bacon
I have a thing for odd numbers, even a little OCD. They’re just more interesting—unbalanced, a little unpredictable.
Odd numbers are the system’s way of embracing controlled chaos. They introduce asymmetry—just enough to make things resilient, interesting, or memorable. Like a glitch that makes the pattern more real.
There’s beauty in things that don’t quite resolve and things that do, oddly, and I love that. :)
As always, your mileage may vary, so use what’s helpful. Discard the rest. ✌️
Written by a creative technologist, photographer, and an evolving human living in Japan—enhanced (and tangled) by technology.
Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful. — John Maeda, The Laws of Simplicity
As always, your mileage may vary, so use what’s helpful. Discard the rest.✌️
Written by a creative technologist, photographer, and an evolving human living in Japan—enhanced (and tangled) by technology.
When my daughter was little, I'd say, “Nothing's impossible—just stuff we haven't figured out yet.”
“Impossible” is just fear talking. We get scared of what we don't know. Life isn't split into possible and impossible; it's more about what we know and what we're still learning.
As Arthur C. Clarke wisely said:
“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”
So when I’m thinking about all the things in life that seem impossible, I remind myself: we’ll get there—we just haven’t figured it out yet.
As always, your mileage may vary, so use what’s helpful. Discard the rest. ✌️
Written by a creative technologist, photographer, and an evolving human living in Japan—enhanced (and tangled) by technology.
“I like watches that remind me of a person that I've never been.”
— John Mayer
A great watch can reflect who you are, or who you imagine yourself becoming.
As always, your mileage may vary, so use what’s helpful. Discard the rest.✌️
#quotes, #philosophy, #watches
Written by a creative technologist, photographer, and an evolving human living in Japan—enhanced (and tangled) by technology.