“ Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Set Higher Standards
Nov 10
Nov 07
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“Five thousand dollars,” the artist replied.
“B-b-but, what?” the woman sputtered. “How could you want so much money for this picture? It only took you a second to draw it!”
To which Picasso responded, “Madame, it took me my entire life.”
Oct 22
“ Tone is in your fingers.
Sep 18
“ As more great new companies are absorbed into big old companies, a whole new generation of change is lost.
Sep 12
Michael Jordan’s Speech
Sep 07
It’s not what you say that matters
The power of social media is found in the results of people using these tools - the creation of self-organized communities of likeminded people - making it a valuable way for businesses to inspire, inform, understand and connect with the people who buy their products and services.
Aug 29
One day… I’ll make da climb.
Aug 10
“ By far the dominant reason for not releasing sooner was a reluctance to trade the dream of success for the reality of feedback.
— Kent Beck, Approaching a Minimum Viable Product via 37signals
Aug 02
“ Figure out the absolute least you need to do to implement the idea, do just that, and then polish the hell out of the experience.
— John Gruber’s one central, overriding guideline for iPhone UI design via 37signals
Jul 31
“ High Performing Individuals
Jul 22
“ Play to win, not to not loose.
Jul 11
“ In the network economy the winner-take-all behavior of Hollywood hit movies will become the norm for most products—even bulky manufactured items. Oil wells are financed this way now; a few big gushers pay for the many dry wells. You try a whole bunch of ideas with no foreknowledge of which ones will work. Your only certainty is that each idea will either soar or flop, with little in between. A few high-scoring hits have to pay for all the many flops. This lotterylike economic model is an anathema to industrialists, but that’s how network economies work. There is much to learn from long-term survivors in existing hits-oriented business (such as music and books). They know you need to keep trying lots of things and that you don’t try to predict the hits, because you can’t.
Jun 01
“ 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.
“ 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
