If some dude I'd never heard of managed to broadcast a platitude like that to the whole globe, I'd probably just feel like I was being spammed.

I can't imagine everyone on the planet would want to hear something from me. If I thought they'd listen, I'd probably ask them to try to be nicer to each other, to try to be less scared of their differences.

It's the good old paradox of democracy. We are individually pretty small drops in the bucket, but collectively we are all powerful.

For me, it works best to plan just enough to come up with a good direction to head out in. Then I start down the path as soon as I can, without a very clear idea of what exactly I'm going to end up with. I try to leave a lot of time for flexibility and play and changing direction.

Actually, here is something I'm passionate about that, looking around me, seems like the world at large must not care about as much as I do: craft.

What puts me in a vulnerable state? Beauty, wonder, surprise, mystery. Stuff like that.

I can't stand things that are poorly made or shoddily conceived. I feel like I'm being insulted when something is poorly designed, poorly made. It's like whoever made that thing didn't respect the rest of us enough to do it well.