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Treat people at the end of the relationship like it’s the beginning, and there won’t be an end.

→ 2014-06-29

Inspiration is perishable… Inspiration is like fresh fruit or milk: It has an expiration date.

If you want to do something, you’ve got to do it now. You can’t put it on a shelf and wait two months to get around to it. You can’t just say you’ll do it later. Later, you won’t be pumped up about it anymore.

→ 2014-02-21

Inspiration is perishable… Inspiration is like fresh fruit or milk: It has an expiration date.

If you want to do something, you’ve got to do it now. You can’t put it on a shelf and wait two months to get around to it. You can’t just say you’ll do it later. Later, you won’t be pumped up about it anymore.

→ 2014-02-21

The default state of any new idea is failure. It’s the execution–the fight against inertia–that matters.

It’s so easy to get stuck in the waiting place, putting things off until later, even when those things are vitally important to making your dreams come true. But the truth is that, in order to make progress, you need to physically and mentally fight against the momentum of ordinary events.

This is, of course, mentally and physically taxing. My own conscious focus on the fight very slowly faded until, after just a couple of months, it was gone. I had once again become a cog in the insidious machine called quo.

Doing something remarkable with your life is tough work, and it helps to remember one simple, motivating fact: in a blink, you could be gone. (…) You really have nothing to lose.

→ 2014-01-26

The instinct to produce great work doesn’t require a fancy notebook.

→ 2013-12-27

→ 2013-11-06

A programmer takes between 10-15 minutes to start editing code after resuming work from an interruption. When interrupted during an edit of …