Silo Number Seven

Moonshot Thinking

The good folks over at The Do Blog put up this post sometime last year, but I only seemed to have stumbled across it recently.  An incredible piece by the always ambitious, Google.  Here’s to your inspiration for the week!

|Before you tell yourself that your idea is too ambitious, too unrealistic, too pie-in-the-sky; remember that once there were no planes. There were no rockets to take us into space. There were no computers.

Someone had to take the first leap. Someone had to build wings out of wood and try to fly. Someone had to look logic in the face and tell it to do one. That someone had the courage to try. And our world today is shaped by their efforts.

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My Whole Life

“If you’re reading this, and you have a whole life ahead of you, please. Don’t procrastinate. Don’t leave your dreams for later. Relish in your energy, your passions. Don’t stay on the internet with all your spare time (unless your passion needs it). Please, do something with your life while your young. DO NOT settle down at 20. DO NOT forget your friends, your family. Yourself. Do NOT waste your life. Your ambitions. Like I did mine. Do not be like me.”

Really great post on Reddit picked up by Ebb Isaac, and passed over to me. Link for the entire read here.

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Wall and Chain

I came across this short and thought it was only appropriate to post it, with this week being the 25th Anniversary of the destruction of the Berlin Wall.  Like I repeat time and time again, SN7 is all about the media that evokes emotion, tells a story, and does a good job of it.  I’ve always found that if a company can understand that (and many companies have: Chipotle, Nike, Patagonia, etc.) then they’ll go farther with their customers than they ever could.  In thinking about it this week, I realized there’s something about stories that people love and resonate with – and it’s been the core of Silo Number Seven since day 1.

For more information on the project above by Airbnb, check out Belong Anywhere.

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A Deliberate Life

| There comes a time in all of our lives when we let ourselves dream about living life on our own terms. When we wrestle with the decision to take a step into traffic, follow our passions and live deliberately – or simply let another day, and daydream, pass.

In the end, it doesn’t matter if we make the decision of our own accord, or life makes it for us. It’s where our heart and soul are that matter. For some, the result is a closer alignment between vocation and avocation, for some it’s a reprioritization of what’s important in life, for some it’s the very real difference between life and death.

I couldn’t have said it better myself. Life on purpose makes a lot more sense than life that’s passive.

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This Is Water

I can’t say it any better than the original caption of the video, so here you go:

| In 2005, author David Foster Wallace was asked to give the commencement address to the 2005 graduating class of Kenyon College. However, the resulting speech didn’t become widely known until 3 years later, after his tragic death. It is, without a doubt, some of the best life advice we’ve ever come across, and perhaps the most simple and elegant explanation of the real value of education.

We made this video, built around an abridged version of the original audio recording, with the hopes that the core message of the speech could reach a wider audience who might not have otherwise been interested.

Read the full speech here:
web.archive.org/web/20080213082423/http://www.marginalia.org/dfw_kenyon_commencement.html

 

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