“ I remember waking up to such a face on day long ago and thinking “the world would have been no different if I had not been here the past six months”. That’s a terrible feeling of regret.
Set Higher Standards
Jun 01
“ Learning from failure may tell you what not to do the next time, but that doesn’t tell you what to do next time. I believe paying more attention to your successes leads to better outcomes.
May 30
Gary Vaynerchuk (Wine Library), Building Personal Brand Within the Social Media Landscape
Apr 28
Michael Merzenich: Exploring the re-wiring of the brain
How to measure code quality
Apr 22
“ It’s been a long time since there was a direct correlation with the hours worked and the success enjoyed. It’s an antiquated notion from the days of manual labour that has no bearing on the world today. When you’re building products or services, there’s a nonlinear connection between input and output. You can put in just a little and still get out a spectacular lot.
— DHH
Mar 31
“ My core philosophy about open source is that we should all be working on the things that we personally use and care about. Working for other people is just too hard and the quality of the work will reflect that. But if we all work on the things we care about and then share those solutions between us, the world gets richer much faster.
— David Heinemeier Hansson
Mar 15
“ Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t loose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.
— Steve Jobs
Mar 04
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The Five Classes of Entrepreneurs
Class I. Opportunist
Class II. Lifestyle Entrepreneur
Class III. Problem Solver
Class IV. Visionary
Class V. Game Changer
Feb 24
“ The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.
— John Maeda
Feb 22
Feb 20
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How do you know when somebody gets GTD?
“It’s very simple. If they at all feel out of control or if they feel they have not the right focus, they know exactly how to get back to it, by themselves. That’s how I got a black belt in karate (“if you can train yourself”). Doesn’t have to mean you’re always in shape but if you know how to get yourself back in shape because you know the game and you know how to put yourself into the game when required, that’s it.
So, if you’re feeling out of control in any situation and you know how to get that control, or you’re feeling like I don’t have the right focus right now and I need to get the right focus. If you know how to do both of those, you’re on.”
Feb 10
Elizabeth Gilbert: A different way to think about creative genius
(in a hurry? seek to 14:27–15:35 & 18:30–)
(in a hurry? seek to 14:27–15:35 & 18:30–)
Jan 23
“ Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.
— Malcolm Gladwell in his book “Outliers”
Jan 19
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Understanding this may help to answer an important question: why Europe grew so powerful. Was it something about the geography of Europe? Was it that Europeans are somehow racially superior? Was it their religion? The answer (or at least the proximate cause) may be that the Europeans rode on the crest of a powerful new idea: allowing those who made a lot of money to keep it.
Once you’re allowed to do that, people who want to get rich can do it by generating wealth instead of stealing it. The resulting technological growth translates not only into wealth but into military power. The theory that led to the stealth plane was developed by a Soviet mathematician. But because the Soviet Union didn’t have a computer industry, it remained for them a theory; they didn’t have hardware capable of executing the calculations fast enough to design an actual airplane.
In that respect the Cold War teaches the same lesson as World War II and, for that matter, most wars in recent history. Don’t let a ruling class of warriors and politicians squash the entrepreneurs. The same recipe that makes individuals rich makes countries powerful. Let the nerds keep their lunch money, and you rule the world.
— Paul Graham
