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An itinerary-centered existence doesn’t lend itself to discovering new and unexpected pleasures, and creating formulaic systems for dealing with family, work, friends, and more—with little room for organic expansion or any margin for error—can rob these perfectionists of the opportunity to grow in a way that isn’t planned or goal-oriented.
The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control
Katherine Morgan Schafler
We’ll never get the upper hand in our relationship with the moments of our lives because we are nothing but those moments. To “master” them would first entail getting outside of them, splitting off from them. But where would we go? “Time is the substance I am made of,” writes Jorge Luis Borges. “Time is a river that sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.” There’s no scrambling up to the safety of the riverbank when the river is you.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
In SVG the coordinate (0,0) is at the top-left of the SVG element. The x coordinate goes from left to right and the y coordinate goes from top to bottom.
Fundamentals of HTML, SVG, CSS and JavaScript for Data Visualisation
Peter Cook
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