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Wallpaper - “Don’t Ignore Your Dreams…”

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I feel a little uncomfortable seeing that quote with my name under it. The ideas are Bronnie Ware's; I just transformed them from mistakes to the corresponding commands.

Also, I didn't mean to imply those are the five most important things in life or anything like that. I just wanted to avoid the specific mistakes she described.

Thanks for commenting, and for writing the post in the first place! I understand your concern - and just took your name off of all of em.

I always wonder, will what works for pg and other famous people work for me, a relative zero entity?

It's great that they have these ideals now that they are esteemed critical thinkers, businessmen, and artists. "Would they have been more or less successful if they had had these ideals back then?" is the question that I would like answered.

I read another comment from comet that had a quote on a post that just left the front page about Feynman burning out that I think might answer your question. You can do it all, be successful, happy, driven, and have what others might think are unobtainable ideals all at the same time.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3877084 This reminds me of a Zen Buddhist text that goes like this - “The Master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in everything he does, leaving others to determine whether he is at work or at play. To him, he is always doing both.”

Agreed. Note the source -- folks who had gone home to die and spoke with a palliative care nurse, Bronnie Ware. There are many people who die without access to in-home hospice care.* Overall they tend to be poorer and I would bet they have some other regrets not mentioned here (and I'd be interested to read up on them).

Still, it's hard to argue with this advice...

* I believe Medicare (covers most Americans over 65) provides some in-home hospice benefit, so I'm not saying this is limited to the extremely rich, but it is limited to those with a home and the wherewithal to seek hospice care.

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I guess that is what gets me with advice. Often times it sounds just "Take only the good parts of this idea and apply it to your life!"

If you define something to be only the positive effects of something else, then by definition you cannot have any negative effects of the first something. "Live a happy life!" is that sort of statement. "Make friends!" is another.

This appears to be just some words from PG's article written in nice handwriting in front of a picture of a mountain.

Am I missing something?

That's what I expected given the title of the submission.

Am I missing the reason for your comment?

Nope, but that doesn't make the words, or the obvious impact they had on the artist, any less important.

I suppose if you think about things in general, all design is just words, shapes, and pictures organized in an aesthetically pleasing and functionally efficient way. This is a wallpaper, so there's less of the latter. :P

wallpaper looks good. choice of mountain as the background fitting the quotes..

It seems like you read to the third line but missed the fourth and fifth.

It's… awkwardly sycophantic.

Agreed, it's kind of like one of those motivational posters you see around. Just not for me, I suppose.

It feels wildly unnatural to see such a cult of personality around an incubator that idealizes free and forward thinking.

Yes. The message.

I love that she took the time to paint the words and scan them in. It makes a very big difference I think.

Yes, the non-uniformity of identical letters adds a really nice layer to the aesthetic

Actually using this as my desktop. Works beautifully; serene, subtly invigorating. Nice work: the hand-painted lettering and well-chosen vista add power to a message one can never really hear too often.

Why was "don't work too much" rewritten as "don't work too hard"?

whoops, my bad! that's pretty major. I'll fix it this afternoon..

cool! to me that was the most impactful one - but I still value hard work :)

fixed!

I'm asking this because I'd actually would like to know how, but how do you say things that are on your mind and still cultivate friendship.

Maybe try having thoughts that are more kind and respectful? You can't win everyone as friends, but being respectful will win enough.

The difference between an honest person and an asshole? Tact.

/r 1920x1080 please

on it! - sneakily making these in class

FYI: The default resolution a 27" thunderbolt display is 2560x1440. If you're interested in supporting a lot of different resolutions, you may consider starting there and scaling down.

Thanks for the suggestion - point taken. :) I've uploaded larger versions on the blog.

mtn- http://byalicelee.com/files/PG_1920x1080.jpg plain- http://byalicelee.com/files/PG_1920x1080p.jpg

thank you!

Can we get a 1600x900 version please?

These would make awesome posters!

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