I wait for most things to be over. I wait for this to be over to do the next thing and the next thing and the next thing and the next thing...
Because I’ve realized, everything you love and hate leaves at the same speed: Done. Done. Done. The thing you hate that you have to do tomorrow will be over before you know it, and the thing you're looking forward to tomorrow will be over before you know it. So I have a new rule in my life, and the rule is:
Never wish for less time.
Waiting for things to be over is just wishing for less time. Waiting for this to be over to get to the next thing—that's just wishing for less time.
So wherever you go, just make a home right there and do that thing…Wherever you are, go, 'this is where it's all at right now.
As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity everything requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.
The best way for you to learn the truth is learn a bunch of small truths like every single week right like it's basically compounding right like yeah you you learn one new thing every week then you have new followup question you design you experiment you come back next week you have more truth and by the end of like six months you learn so much about the world that you know what the company should be.
Not only is any sufficiently advanced technology indistinguishable from magic; any sufficiently advanced technologist seems like a magician. In order to write the new version of this life description, I need to imagine a version of myself who, by definition, I cannot understand. If I understood her she wouldn’t be magical.
- Becoming a magician - Autotranslucence
What’s going on is that without some kind of direct experience to use as a touchstone, people don’t have the context that gives them a place in their minds to put the things you are telling them. The things you say often don’t stick, and the few things that do stick are often distorted. Also, most people aren’t very good at visualizing hypotheticals, at imagining what something they haven’t experienced might be like, or even what something they have experienced might be like if it were somewhat different. One of the things I really miss from my days at Lucasfilm is having artists on staff, being able to run down the hall and say, “hey Gary, draw me this picture.