I have to invest and learn every single thing about her. We were unencumbered by some rules-y producing entity being like, it needs this, it needs this.
Like someone will say, I can't believe you did x, y, and z. You either are unencumbered by improv and you play freely, or not.
The subway provides in miniature all of the charms of long-distance train travel minus the view. There is the unencumbered time, a commodity beyond price for those who sell their waking hours in order to afford a place to sleep. There is the heady state of in-betweeness, a brief release from all worldly entanglement.
So no harm, no foul. I was completely unencumbered . Didn't have any family.
We start to panic, and it's a panic that either causes us to hold back and get frozen in place, or to propel ourselves up this learning curve. We kind of start out in what I call "backpacker mode," unencumbered . But once we're out there in this state of awareness, we start to look for who can help us, and we move into what I think is the most powerful form
So we kept coming, we kept making our work counts, and week two comes and goes, and then around week three, this really interesting thing started happening, which is that these books that we had started completely unencumbered with things like plots, or characters, or competent storytelling ability of any kind whatsoever, started to come alive.
around while you're trying to keep up with the pack. You've got to be basically free and unencumbered . You have got to be pretty egalitarian, you know? You can't be the tough guy who's blazing out for individual glory. You've got to be part of the pack. You've got to be able to be a woman and keep up with that pack, because no time in your life are you more in need of animal protein
She had a fever. The fresh grass and forsythia will carry you towards summer, your body lithe and unencumbered , your hunger fed
I don't want you to believe what I believe. But for me, joy and peace only exist in your base consciousness, in your unencumbered awareness. The word that mystics use for this is soul.
And so I think what's going to be incredibly important in phase two of the tech revolution And in a way, you tell us something similar, that the best defense of our values and institutions as a society is letting you play offense unencumbered .
So this is an idea that he leaks to the media. And for me, geekiness, all it means, is it's unadulterated, unencumbered enthusiasm for something.
And you're like, I'm going to do that as soon as this thing is done, and I just have this huge vista of time. Well, what ended up happening, as I'm sure you've experienced as well, is that vista of totally unencumbered time never actually came. It would always be the next thing that we had to do, that we had to keep working on.