Daniel Coffeen

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Strategist · American · Male

I write about philosophy, living well, language, the relationship between the visible and invisible worlds, tequila, and film. I also do brand strategy, writing, and naming for companies large and small (Medium, FitBit, Adobe, Banana Republic, Dolby, and more!).

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From “The Scholastic Swindle: Quashing Adolescence”

“High school, it seems, has changed. It has become competitive. Young men and women — 13 to 18 years old — must work more or less tirelessly to ensure their spot at a college deemed worthy to them and their families. So rather than living their adolescent lives — lives brimming with desires and…”

Tagged: Debt, Capitalism, Teenage Wildlife, Youth, High Scool

From “Knowing Things”

“I want to say that to know something, to really know it and not just know of it, is to go with it. To know, then, is not to know about something but to know with something, to be moved with that thing.”

Tagged: Knowing

From “The Life of Things”

“Things have their ways. They speak to us. They nudge us. Things live amongst us. Or, more properly put, we live amongst them. When I look at something, at anything, that thing quite literally fills my body. To perceive is to be affected. It is silly to think that we have some soul, some being, that…”

Tagged: Things, Interaction, Philosophy

From “What Is Sobriety?”

“Sometimes, I do want to feel sober — serious, quiet, reserved. Sometimes, however, I want to be delirious.”

Tagged: Sober, Drugs, Delirious

From “Don’t Try To Be Happy”

“Fuck opportunity. This moment right now is beautiful and perfect. It’s not an opportunity. It’s already happening whether you like it or not — so you might as well like it.”

Tagged: Opportunity, Happiness, The way forward, Quote of the Moment

From “Drape and Drift”

“It is a language that has at once come and will never come, a language we're always already speaking and will never speak.”

Tagged: The Secret of Secrecy, What Remains In Suspension, Languages of the Unsayable, Empty Messianic Posturing

From “Holding Tightly, Holding Lightly”

“Romantic love is seductive. Like any good drug, it enraptures. It takes you up and carries you away. Your heart beats faster; your veins course with joy itself; you're giddy and smiley and all is right with the world.”

Tagged: Love, romance, How Love Feels

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