Expansiveness
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Protected: Dear あ
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What Maya Angelou says about success that you cannot miss
Here’s an update to an old post, because it ties in very nicely with current conversatons that tend to veer at this time of year towards, ‘Reflection.’ The category of purpose, of knowing what matters, of undersanding ourselves, of taking time to suss it all and see what we want to do… next. This is…
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A new issue of DESK covers the 13-year time gap of ‘exit, exile and return’
As a limited edition of 20, this issue gets personal. New original illustration and writing from the desk of DK. A curated set of interviews, personal essays, and short snippets on the reflective points of view from thinkers on ‘returns’. What if there is no ‘going back?’ A study of queries on these lines, this…
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Why slowing down can make you faster
‘Slow down to see it.’ Writing about this these days, over at my various newsletters for different groups of people who care about design, journaling, meaningful work, doing what matters, and taking time to really introspect. I’m Dipika Kohli. I guess there’s so much to say about wanting to encourage people to do this, to…
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The value of a mixed set of sources of input
I write about things I care about like balance, quiet, making space for people to relax and connect. But I also am curious to learn new things, from, as I used to write automatically, new and different others. Found this old article (they mention Twitter like it was Old Twitter, which was good, even great, for…
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Protected: DESK | Slow down to see it
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The value of common space
In college, I had studied methods of building roads, bridges, skyscrapers, as in, how to do this. The nuts, bolts, road mixture aggregates, and trusses, the best to date of what we knew up to then in the field about how to design, how to build civil infrastructure. I liked this. I liked the math…
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UNBOXED | Design Kompany’s new Creative Confidence virtual workshop
This is for you if you want to be a person who leads with innovation, either at work, or for your personal life. As in, “What can we do now, that’s new?” Let’s discover. Let’s explore. Details at https://designkompany.com/creative-confidence
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‘Putting things together that make you feel a certain way’
Nice line. Can relate to the idea of wanting to use materials found right around me when I got to Cambodia. Sopheap Pich‘s studio features in this National Gallery of Singapore video in which he also talks about his explorations of material. Nice title, too: ‘How things meet’. Here is a link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIUAAyr6tr4 ‘Something different……
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Most people think you have to have then you can be, but it’s not like that
Nice video of a billionaire woman talking about inner peace. It seems like she kind of means it but who knows what thigns are like off-screen, off-camera, and away from youtube which is designed to make us stay and go, ‘Yeah, yeah, I, too, can be like that.’ Can we? I’m 1/4 in, but probably…
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Bitter old lady and grumpy old man
So yeah. I found this and I like this piece. This bit, especially… ‘Psychology reveals that the gentle elder and the bitter one didn’t simply inherit different personalities—they made different choices about their grief. How we process our losses throughout life directly determines the person we become. The divergence between softening and hardening with age…
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Art & Copy May issue release party
Come to our zinemaking club’s release party for Art & Copy, ‘A Change of Air’. It’ll be held at a secret location in Toul Tompoung, Phnom Penh. Tickets come with your own copy of the zine, to keep. Advance bookings only. Book here or ask for ABA link via Telegram @makezines. This is the issue…
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‘American education needs to be more difficult’… A conversation snippet from a David Foster Wallace interview
Slowing down. Friction for us to have so that we can use our brains and not get lost in the ‘feed it to me fast’ entertainment-like finding out of stuff modes, and more topics about how people are refusing to be online as much. I saw someone using a camcorder at the Songkran festival water-throwing…
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‘Let’s unspectacle’
‘The spectacle is the epitome of ideology because in its plenitude it exposes and manifests the essence of all ideological systems. The impoverishment, enslavement, and negation of real life. The spectacle is the material expression of the separation and estrangement between man and man.’ -Guy de Bord, Society of the Spectacle. So how about…
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Julia sets, the kbach and wu wei: how I learned to let things flow
Once I found this quote… ‘The way you learn is the way you approach life in general. It is also the way you solve problems, make decisions, and meet life’s challenges.’ It adds that learning happens in any setting and goes on throughout life, and that the experiential learning process supports good things like getting…
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The Cost of Inaction II
According to the site Positive Psychology’s page on the topic, ‘the phrase “comfort zone” was coined by management thinker Judith Bardwick in her 1991 work Danger in the Comfort Zone. In which Bardwick writes: “The comfort zone is a behavioral state within which a person operates in an anxiety-neutral condition, using a limited set of behaviors…
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The Cost of Inaction
Showing up is about risk—social risk, emotional risk, the risk of being seen trying. Want to make things, be creative, and meet new people trying to do the same? It’s not simple to find that kind of community, I think, partly because we hold ourselves back often due to overwhelming social programming. But I’m one…
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Art & Copy Zine Club
Meet, talk, and co-make zines. Art & Copy Zine Club has members in various parts of Southeast Asia in case you want to try a real life version of our zinemaking ateliers. Meantime we also run them virtually, with calls and groups to gather conversations up and edit them into small stories. The Art &…
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Protected: Desk | ‘The value of taking accountability’
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Art & Copy | Singapore 22-31 January
Design Kompany’s Dipika Kohli will represent Art & Copy at a set of conversation events coming up in Singapore, alongside that city’s art week events. A bunch of people who get together because they love art and want to experience something new… that really excites us, here at Design Kompany. We want to…
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‘N’ Singapore: NUANCE
‘N’ is a big blind date for people to meet, talk and cross paths with others whom they might not’ve, by design. The topic this time is Nuance. Pictured above is our event in Phnom Penh, and at left, the tickets for our Bangkok event moments after I hand-delivered the first of the sixteen. In…
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Protected: Desk | ‘It’s okay not to be “perfect”‘
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Art & Copy Zinemaking Atelier
Check in, connect, converse, share your words if you like. Write to daily prompts. Meet us in virtual space, for weekly meets… those are optional. There are many tracks emerging for people to write to different themes. These are determined based on the onboarding process, which begins with your application. Note: there are fees to…
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Protected: S P A C E ｜I wish Japan would ease up on the ‘gambaru (頑張る)’ thing and this is why
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Why’s AI so awkward?
Really.