This is our Signature. And it means everything.

This is our Signature. Post-Jobs Apple declares(or reaffirms?) its true North.

This is it.
This is what matters.
The experience of a product.

How it makes someone feel.
Will it make life better?
Does it deserve to exist?

We spend a lot of time
On a few great things.
Until every idea we touch
Enhances each life it touches.

You may…

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Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.
Alain de Botton (via nevver)

A madness lies in every man, it stirs when you put a pen in his hand.

Nails it ;)

Nails it ;)

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Before we get to the how, do sample what sort of music am talking about here.

“Jaane Kaise” –…

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What musicians do while stuck on a plane waiting on tarmac..

via OpenCulture

parislemon:

I’ll just leave this here.

Menacing is the word…

crashinglybeautiful:

Weak desires can be removed by introspection and meditation, but strong, deep-rooted ones must be fulfilled and their fruits, sweet or bitter, tasted.
—Nisargadatta Maharaj
Photograph: Fan Ho, Approaching Shadow, 1954
From parabola-magazine.

Nailed it…but the implications are horrific!

crashinglybeautiful:

Weak desires can be removed by introspection and meditation, but strong, deep-rooted ones must be fulfilled and their fruits, sweet or bitter, tasted.

—Nisargadatta Maharaj

Photograph: Fan Ho, Approaching Shadow, 1954

From parabola-magazine.

Nailed it…but the implications are horrific!

Blessed are the honest, for they shall more than just see God!

Blessed are the honest, for they shall more than just see God!

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. (Plato’s Apology)
Socrates (via quotedojo)

Only a Master could speak thus!

Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it is amazing how little time we take to remark upon this singular and gratifying fact. By the most astounding stroke of luck an infinitesimal portion of all the matter in the universe came together to create you and for the tiniest moment in the great span of eternity you have the incomparable privilege to exist.
Bill Bryson, I’m a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away (via milktree)

Indeed!