{"id":2415,"date":"2023-04-27T17:58:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T17:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymind.com\/?p=2415"},"modified":"2025-09-12T13:23:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T13:23:02","slug":"on-winning-making-things-typewriters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymind.com\/on-winning-making-things-typewriters","title":{"rendered":"On winning, making things &amp; typewriters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"article-beginning\">Like every week, we're here to share the ideas, visuals and discoveries currently floating around our minds. Some light and fleeting, some we'll been mulling over for a long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-custom_5dzmfzg0c\">This quote from Milton Glaser<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center is-style-custom_2ckfb3b91\">\u201cYou feel differently towards the world when you make things.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-custom_ax59j2p7m\">Highlight the text, including quotation marks, to save this as a quote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-custom_5dzmfzg0c\">The satisfying design of old typewriters<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"728\" src=\"https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Typewriters-1-1024x728.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Typewriters-1-1024x728.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Typewriters-1-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Typewriters-1-768x546.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Typewriters-1.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"728\" src=\"https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Typewriters-2-1024x728.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Typewriters-2-1024x728.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Typewriters-2-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Typewriters-2-768x546.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Typewriters-2.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Typewriters-3-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Typewriters-3-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Typewriters-3-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Typewriters-3-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Typewriters-3-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Typewriters-3-1.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Typewriters-4-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Typewriters-4-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Typewriters-4-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Typewriters-4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Typewriters-4-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Typewriters-4.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-custom_5dzmfzg0c\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cmA55DOJrB8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">This video interview with pro skateboarder, Rodney Mullen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI see people with talent, with all those things, but that one thing they don\u2019t have is that love for doing it for the sake of it. And the sense of obligation to do something with what you\u2019re given, you know? There\u2019s something to that. It\u2019s important. I think getting what you want quenches the fire that got you there, often \u2013 unless it\u2019s replaced by something more permanent, which becomes more intangible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think the successes of winning\u2026 it just keeps going up, and by the time you get there you can have a stadium screaming your name. It\u2019s actually happened a couple times to me. And there is a visceral exhilaration to it, there is. I\u2019ve experienced that, I know what that\u2019s like. You land a trick and it just lights up. It\u2019s crazy. But at the same time it\u2019s hollow. It\u2019s not the thing that can drive you, at least not for long\u2026 All of these honors, eventually that stuff fades to static, and it\u2019s just you and your board. If you decide [fame is] what you love, that\u2019s what you\u2019re doing, then your days are numbered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the trick is to peel back, why am I doing this in the first place?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cmA55DOJrB8\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Watch the video interview \u2192<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-custom_ax59j2p7m\">Click the + button in your browser to save the video to your mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until next week! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like every week, we&#8217;re here to share the ideas, visuals and discoveries currently floating around our minds. Some light and fleeting, some we&#8217;ll been mulling over for a long time. 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