Many of my friends misjudge it, thinking sport needs to be swift like a basketball game, or intense and concentrated like a football game. But baseball is more of an experience to have than a spectacle to see. It’s called a park for a reason: it’s a place of leisure, (hell, stretching is built into the format), and an opportunity to just be present.
Frank Chimero – I’ve been jonesing to go to a baseball game…
A few years ago when traveling I had a meal at a tapas bar on a slow Tuesday night, and struck up a conversation with the chef in the open kitchen. She told me that the key to a good meal is matching the chef’s time: take as much time to eat the dish as it took to prepare it. I always filed it away in my head, but never quite knew how to classify the sentiment. It’s just within the past few days that I’ve understood that the reason I liked the thought so much was because of how kind it seemed. To match attention is to be kind.
Frank Chimero – Running Towards.
Really writing forces us to lock the words into whatever contraption is being used to write. I like typewriters because it’s hard to take out the paper and crumple it up while writing. The easiest movement is FORWARD. Typewriters are momentum machines. Real writing pushes forward. Tweets push in every direction at once. These are not value judgements, these are just some observations.
Frank Chimero – Tweeting and Writing and Deflating Like a Balloon.
Velocity. A very beautiful essay from Frank Chimero.
You are what you eat. If you want to get hired to do something then you should already be doing it. Potential energy is difficult to judge but if you take the initiative to turn it into a tangible product you’re miles ahead of others.
Your Shit, My Stuff, Goldilocks, and Making the Bed You Sleep In. If we paid more attention to fit, access, and steadfastness in the things we buy maybe we’d all be a bit happier with less. Bonus is Frank Chimero’s awesome definition of freedom:
What I mean by freedom is the ability to say no. I don’t consider this a negative way of thinking, but rather a very positive way to have permission to opt out of the things we don’t want to do. I feel we need to acknowledge the value of the freedom derived from simplifying and eliminating the useless things in our life. This means having an understanding of what’s important.
An absolutely wonderful post.
Frank Chimero discusses his idea of whiteboard accounting. Or, how to stay sane while freelancing and living through the feasts and famines.
A stellar essay from Frank Chimero on content (as told through the metaphor of watery soup).
You ever order soup at a restaurant and get a bowl that’s mostly broth?
The problem is the register at the restaurant is four-hundred bucks under what it was the day before, and everyone is running around screaming “No one wants to buy our soup!” Then they start looking for different ways to distribute the soup. Do they buy new ladles? Would people like it if the ladles were fancier? “Let’s buy new bowls. People would enjoy the new bowls,” they say. Customers could choose the bowl that best fits their personality, or how they’re feeling that day, or whether they’re having the soup for lunch or for dinner.
Pretty fun to substitute “news” for “soup” throughout the post. Reminded me of an earlier article about news systems trying to pass off watery broth.
Frank Chimero saw a horse in an Apple Store. Everybody else was too busy looking at the shiny gadgets to observe something exceptional.
