July 2012
31 posts
“something new and useful and limitless that had incubated inside me for 29 years, but wouldn’t come out without the help of a shitload of tiny pink pills”
—How I hacked my brain with Adderall: a cautionary tale | The Verge
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“It’s amazing how many voices you will encounter trying to convince you to make a bad movie,” says Wang. “They say take that wonderful and unique thing you have and turn it into garbage because the people love garbage and what’s safer than garbage and we all live in garbage anyway.” So amidst these pressures, you must defend original work, he says: “You need someone to say, ‘Enough already.’ I got tired of waiting for someone, so I said, ‘Enough already.’ ”
—writer/director/actor | MetaFilter
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“Tinkering is what happens when you try something you don’t quite know how to do, guided by whim, imagination, and curiosity. When you tinker, there are no instructions — but there are also no failures, no right or wrong ways of doing things. It’s about figuring out how things work and reworking them. Tinkering is, at its most basic, a process that marries play with inquiry.”
—Getting Started with Arduino, 2nd Edition
