so, yeah. i’m rob.
this is that part where i would normally tell you about myself.
but i’m going to treat it more like a manifesto in progress—
an inventory of things that i like, have learned, come to believe...
Some THings that i try to live by.
but i’m going to treat it more like a manifesto in progress—
an inventory of things that i like, have learned, come to believe...
Some THings that i try to live by.
(there’s definitely some history baked in, because who are we if not the sum of our experiences.)
ok, here goes…
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within the particular, lies the universal.
“reality is not always probable, or likely.” —jorge luis borges
have a point of view.
rule #4: consider everything an experiment.” —john cage
luck favors the prepared.
“we are the stories we tell.” —stanley hainsworth
q: what do you do with an elephant with three balls?
everything is inspiration.
“fail harder.” —dan wieden
sometimes you're just going to run into a guy dressed up as catwoman.
experience > reflect > generalize > apply > repeat
“be a sponge.” —joe duffy
a: walk him and pitch to the giraffe.
diversity leads to unexpected results by combining unlikely variables.
pro tip: when the rhino charges, don’t move.
drawing is thinking.
universe according to fuller: a scenario of non-simultaneous and only partially overlapping transformative events.
“don’t be the proverbial vanilla.” —hank
a well-defined problem is half solved.
be nice to people.
“our’s is a history of pushing dragons off the maps, replacing them with knowledge.” —john glenn
when in doubt, boof.
“build a better world by demanding more out of it.” —david butler
you can’t understand how a tree works by looking at a twig.
resilience is dynamic.
do all the things.
“good design is honest.” —dieter rams
play.
“all media are extensions of man.” —mcluhan
walking makes time for observation.
always bring more socks than you think you will need.
“you don’t have to see an aardvark in somebody’s book to know that they can shoot an aardvark!” —bill oberlander
kipple drives out non-kipple.
a watch-pot will, in fact, boil. but that’s not the point. my grandmother was just trying to teach me about relativity.
believe in something.
sometimes, lost is a great place to be.
i named my guitar ‘pearl’ for no particular reason whatsoever.
if you try to please everyone, you move no one.
remember: we lost a mars probe because somebody forgot to convert shit to metric.
“we have a decent thud. a better thud would be best.” —shawn cuni
it’s totally ok to cry during certain episodes of battlestar galactica.
“fuck the bullshit” —teamscum
“you never change things by fighting the existing reality. to change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” —bucky fuller