flâneur

George liang

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  • Stop writing about yourself and start asking what others need to hear instead. Stop writing about the figures you idolize online and start writing about what they embody abstractly which aligns with the divine. This is how we draw focus away from the ephemeral and to the eternal.
    Things Desired: An Egoless Online [gp] — Charlotte Fang
  • The draw of an industry like crypto is that it is deeply alluring to few, because the scope of your imagination must be exponentially larger. I hope to see a future where we resurrect the narrative around crypto in our collective imagination. We need to reinvent and retell narratives that make us imagine more.
    Sophie Fuji
  • What has been your favorite era? I have to say my favorite era will be the next era.
    Juxtapoz Magazine - In the Magazine: Hajime Sorayama
  • “The most beautiful and most profound experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.” - Albert Einstein - The Merging of Spirit and Science
    Albert Einstein's thoughts on Spirit and Science - VJAI.com
  • Particular to black American music is the architecture to create a means by which singers and musicians can be completely free, free in the only way that would have been possible on a plantation: through art, through music — music no one “composed” (because enslaved people were denied literacy), music born of feeling, of play, of exhaustion, of hope.
    Why Is Everyone Always Stealing Black Music? - The New York Times
  • As Asian-Americans, many of us were raised by immigrant parents who sacrificed a lot to provide us with the best opportunities. For some of us, that meant taking the risk to build something we were passionate about, but oftentimes in conflict with the traditional path our parents wanted for us. Being in NYC, we wanted to create an intimate space for Asian Gen Z founders and creators to feel seen and supported by other people who understand.
    Asian Founder - GenZ founders & creators community