Friday's Too Good Not to Share: July, 3rd 2020
Every Friday, I share other great content (with some added context) to dive into over the weekend.
The Complex Geometry of Islamic Design
I love tessellation. It’s one of the concepts that has stuck with me since I first learned about it in my middle school art classes. The work of M.C. Escher took me to another dimension of thought and possibility. Before there was the Escher known as M.C., there is a deep history of this type of art in Islamic design. The complex geometry created by these masters helps you contemplate the infinite. This TEDEd video is a short overview of how these seemingly impossible works have been created.
The Big Ideas of the Most Interesting People on Twitter
When you grow up, be Justin Mikolay (@jmikolay). Be helpful. He’s the hero we do not deserve. He has taken time to summarize The Big Ideas of the Most Interesting People of Twitter. It’s worth checking out:
He also writes a longer post on each person he highlights on his blog. Here’s the one for Ed Lattimore.
The Definition of Success is Autonomy
H/T to @DevonMichael_ for sending this over.
Ryan Holiday breaks down what true success looks like. Often, the things that we think give us freedom actually boxes us further in. Real success is autonomy.
Look at this excerpt about Taylor Swift:
There is a revealing scene in Miss Americana, Netflix’s Taylor Swift documentary from earlier this year, that speaks to just this point. Here is a young woman who has accomplished in her field nearly everything you could ever dream was possible. She’s rich. She’s famous. She has millions of fans and followers. She’s sold tens of millions of albums. She’s won Grammys. She has challenged and beaten Apple and Spotify, as well as a man who sexually assaulted her.
And yet there she is, on film, confronting her manager, her parents, her publicist and nearly everyone who works for her, fighting—no, begging—for permission to make a standard political contribution to a candidate in a Democratic primary election in her home state.
Eventually, she breaks down in tears. Why can’t you let me do this? Don’t you see that it’s important to me?
This situation is something to keep in mind when we start to be envious of the rich, famous, and seemingly powerful.
Read the entire post here.
Happy Friday!