February 2012
2 posts
The Storm and The Line
And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in.
—Haruki Murakami
“If you want your kids to know you, spend time with them. (Biographer...”
– Not Like Steve - Deliberatism
October 2011
4 posts
“Big wins happen when you go beyond better sameness.”
– How to Change the World: What I Learned From Steve Jobs
“Be yourself and work as hard as you can to bring wonderful things into the...”
“Live in the way that suggests you know what time it is, with or without a watch....”
– The Time We’re Losing
July 2011
3 posts
“Many organizations will take any customer, any time, and bend and writhe to...”
– Seth’s Blog: Articulating your preferred use case (what’s it for?)
“The Cult of Done Manifesto
1. There are three states of being. Not knowing,...”
– The Cult of Done Manifesto
June 2011
2 posts
“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.”
– The Technium: The Shirky Principle
“Don’t undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly...”
– Edwin Land
April 2011
1 post
March 2011
1 post
“Winning is not random, fast, or glorious. It is slow, cumulative, and almost...”
– How You Win | ideasonideas
February 2011
3 posts
“By giving up control over information, by sharing instead of hoarding, we might...”
“Add things until it starts sucking, take away things until it stops getting...”
– Frank Chimero - Your Shit, My Stuff, Goldilocks, and Making the Bed You Sleep In
“Why wasn’t I consulted,” which I abbreviate as WWIC, is the fundamental...”
October 2010
1 post
“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing...”
– via Shooting for the Sun
September 2010
1 post
“If the Buddha stands in your way to enlightenment you must slay him. Likewise,...”
– STFU Driven Development
August 2010
3 posts
“There are no secrets or shortcuts. Work hard.”
– Frank Chimero
“The things your teachers tell you in class are not gospel. You will get...”
– Frank Chimero
“You can make any person do something seemingly mad, so long as you lead them...”
– Eric Karjaluoto » Dark Forces are Gathering
June 2010
3 posts
“he wanted The Times to be the source ”to whose files future historians...”
– Dusting Off the Search Engine - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
“The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it...”
– M. Ueshiba
May 2010
5 posts
“Late at night, I no longer speak for effect. I speak the truth without the...”
– “Why Do You Stay Up So Late?” by Marvin Bell
“1. Go, make something happen. 2. Do work you’re proud of. 3. Treat people...”
– Seth’s Blog: Simple five step plan for just about everyone and everything
“It will be my earnest aim that The New York Times give the news, all the news,...”
– Cody Brown - A Public Can Talk To Itself: Why The Future of News is Actually Pretty Clear
“I don’t know what the hell is going on. Neither do you, and neither does any one...”
– Ideas: Frank Chimero
“Design can have a myriad of purposes: to inform, to persuade, to sell or to...”
– Ideas: Frank Chimero
April 2010
4 posts
Grid-Based Web Design, Simplified | Design... →
“To Have Succeeded By Ralph Waldo Emerson
To laugh often and love much; To win...”
– William Wu Personal Blog » Quotes of The Day - On Measuring Success
“If I were to write a manifesto for business, it would probably have these ten...”
– The New Media Manifesto
March 2010
3 posts
“The future of our industry now looks totally different than the past. It looks...”
– Hello, iPad. Hello, Cloud 2.
“Hate something, change something, make something better”
– B&T : BLOGS POST — Why I may be sick on you
February 2010
3 posts
“If you are selling a scarcity — an inventory — of any nonphysical goods today,...”
– Stop selling scarcity « BuzzMachine via Om
“A lesson I have learned the hard way is that we aren’t smart enough. Even the...”
– Beautiful Code
“beyond the fear of constructing a life to fit the standards by which we live,...”
– COLOURlovers :: Palette / beyond the fear*
January 2010
7 posts
“We believe in the simple, not the complex. We believe that we need to own and...”
– Daring Fireball: The iPad Big Picture
“Lorem Ipsum, wireframes, personas, etc are just tactics. The only thing that...”
– Lorem Ipsum, wireframes, personas, etc are just tactics… | Konigi
“This experience reinforces my belief that it’s better to be quick than...”
– Hacker News | How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data
“Social media has a loyal tribe of disciples. We follow each other on Twitter,...”
– Why Social Media Isn’t for Everyone
“Folks, it’s not the ideas; it’s design, implementation, and...”
– The Dangerous Trend Of Thinking That Ideas Can Be Owned, Sold Or Stolen | Techdirt
“Japanese design principles
The Zen principles of Aesthetics are derived from...”
– Aen Direct via swissmiss
“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably...”
– Daniel Burnham, Chicago architect. (1846-1912) via Daring Fireball: The Tablet
December 2009
2 posts
“Perhaps the most significant difference, however, was that despite the...”
– Tangled Webs 7.6 - The Black Team
November 2009
1 post
“there is tremendous benefit to creating a huge pile, just a huge pile of stuff,...”
– Metacrap and Flickr Tags: An Interview with Cory Doctorow | Epicenter | Wired.com
October 2009
4 posts
“Those who know do not speak, those who speak, do not know”
– About the Tao