At this moment, there is one YouTube celebrity with more subscribers than anyone else. It’s not Lady Gaga. It’s not Justin Bieber, either. More than 3 million fans on YouTube have signed up to receive updates and videos from Ryan Higa, a college student in Las Vegas, who was raised in Hilo, Hawaii. – NPR
“Skepticism isn’t teaching people what to think; it’s teaching people how to think. You don’t accomplish that by telling them that everything they know is wrong.” – twisted physics
We are not talking here about the kind of notebook that is patently for public consumption, a structural conceit for binding together a series of graceful pensées; we are talking about something private, about bits of the mind’s string too short to use, an indiscriminate and erratic assemblage with meaning only for its maker.” – Joan Didion
“…as agreeable an idea as “Creativity for its own sake” is, it’s not particularly sustainable, financially rewarding or emotionally satisfying over the long run.
Human beings are hardwired to embrace “Creativity With Purpose”- i.e.create stuff that actually has real value to ourselves and other people. Creativity is tied into our evolution as a species and our basic survival instinct. It’s there for a reason.”