flâneur

Hanlin Cheng

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  • Bill Russell was the quintessential Big Man—not because of his height but because of the size of his heart. In basketball he showed us how to play with grace and passion. In life he showed us how to live with compassion and joy. He was my friend, my mentor, my role model.”
    The Bill Russell I Knew for 60 Years
  • The spoken content of small talk is, it’s true, mostly vapid. However, the relevant information underneath the spoken content is fascinating if you learn to care about it. What you’re doing is mutually establishing tone and finding boundaries. You’re getting a sense of the person’s mood, energy level, vibe, willingness to talk to you, style of talking, and so on, and they’re getting the same from you. Also, it’s a basic sanity check.
    Making Normal Conversations Better - by Sasha Chapin
  • I am asking you to consciously and proactively want something. Literally anything, it does not matter. The point is to want it, consciously. The point is to decide, to make a decision. I am fascinated by the word choice here—we make decisions. We don’t find them, discover them, or serendipitously stumble upon them by accident—we make them. They are created!
    I am asking you to want something - by Gonzalo Nuñez
  • When I look back at this stage of my life or the lives of those after me, when I give unsolicited advice or choose to bite my tongue, I hope to do it kindly; not with a glare and a shout, but with a wink and a whisper.
    honoring time - unfurled spirals by @katiewav
  • if you spend all your time constantly sketching (probably quickly outdated) pictures of your thinking on the bigger questions we’ve all been tasked with answering, you neglect the actual doing that would reveal answers with richer hues. It’s too easy to confuse playing the “performing yourself” game with figuring out who that self really is.
    callings - by Molly Mielke - Mind Mud
  • I see us as always having two distinct options: you either 1) consider all possible games and then use your won influence wisely, or 2) design a custom game for you alone to play that shamelessly follows the nose of your satisfaction.
    callings - by Molly Mielke - Mind Mud
  • If that matters to you, my question is this: how much are you constraining yourself to your local maxima’s platter of present-day status games?
    callings - by Molly Mielke - Mind Mud