One of the Buddhist teachings in my life’s toolbox goes, “Take all in with a strong back and a soft front, for life is harsh and you want to be gentle.” A contemporary adaption to this mantra is coined by Brené Brown, an American researcher…
It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love.” – Ursula K. Le Guin,The Dispossessed
That sheds light on how passion, kin of love, “willingness to suffer for what you love”, is such an undeniable force that gifts us with the ability to transcend the boundaries beyond our own imagination. Architects and designers, generally speaking, can’t help but bleed passion in their operation system which turns into a lifelong profession; and therefore prefer to speak of it as a calling.
~The Creek~ The creek ripples under a melancholy sun,Boughs shift their formsto shake loose the morning’s dustand intertwine the feathers…
The internet’s revolutionary power is the communication it empowers, but its current state of bickering and confirmation bias is antithetical to that. To avoid the conflicts of interest that cause other social products to make us less happy, productive and informed, SELECT was conceived with our incentives aligned – the best way to generate shared value is to make first and foremost value creation for users and their communities. To that end, we aim to drive a new humane era in Consumer Social that is about depth and intimacy, not social surface area (likes, followers, etc.).
