Prabhakar Kafle

on the atlas · 7

• The Laboratory and the Artist - Cleveland Review of Books12 savers
• I want to do everything, so I do nothing2 savers
• sustaining creative aliveness while working a full time job4 savers
• Don't forget to read this: Agile Startups: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Ventures1 savers
• Chartbook 322: "Can We Consume Our Surplus?" or John Maynard Keynes on "The Influence of Furniture on Love"1 savers
• File over app — Steph Ango6 savers
• Rainer Maria Rilke | Poetry Foundation1 savers

highlights · 8

• The rule is simple: give those focuses your full attention for that season. Don’t constantly abandon them because another idea appears. Let them develop.

  I want to do everything, so I do nothing

• Each season might last two, three, or even five years, and each one has its own storyline: different goals, different priorities, different characters and plot twists.

  I want to do everything, so I do nothing

• Always hire for mindset & cultural fit, never for skills. The latter can be taught, but you’ll never turn a jerk into someone likable,

  Don't forget to read this: Agile Startups: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Ventures

• one’s prime objects in life were love, the creation and enjoyment of aesthetic experience and the pursuit of knowledge

  Chartbook 322: "Can We Consume Our Surplus?" or John Maynard Keynes on "The Influence of Furniture on Love"

• File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you this freedom.

  File over app — Steph Ango

• is what every artist has to face sooner or later, the realisation that life is much more creative than art. So that his mythological dream, the apotheosis of art, appeared to be founded on delusion. Either art was not as creative as he had thought, or he was not such a great artist. Both these doubts were paralyzing

  Rainer Maria Rilke | Poetry Foundation

• Rilke’s very reason for writing poetry: the search for deeper meaning in life through art

  Rainer Maria Rilke | Poetry Foundation

• Religion is the art of those who are uncreative

  Rainer Maria Rilke | Poetry Foundation