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Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. — Dr. Seuss

June 7, 2014 Â· 1 min Â· 12 words

📜 Life’s barely long enough to get good at one thing

Life’s barely long enough to get good at one thing… so be careful what you get good at. — Rust Cohle in True Detective S01E07 @ 28m42s

June 2, 2014 Â· 1 min Â· 27 words

📺 The Power of Vulnerability, by Dr Brené Brown

36m0s: carry (…) a list of people whose opinions of you matter, and it should be a very short list. — Dr Brené Brown (via The Power of Vulnerability | Memory Hole TV) ( Source: https://www.youtube.com/ )

March 12, 2014 Â· 1 min Â· 37 words

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  1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works

Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things. Douglas Adams (via High Scalability – 3 Rules that Describe Our Reactions to Technologies)

March 11, 2014 Â· 1 min Â· 75 words

📜 The default state of any new idea is failure. It’s the execution–the

The default state of any new idea is failure. It’s the execution–the fight against inertia–that matters. Dustin Curtis (via The Fight ) 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 ....

January 26, 2014 Â· 1 min Â· 147 words

📺 Bret Victor – Inventing on Principle

Bret Victor – Inventing on Principle (by CUSEC ) Their principles Elizabeth Cady Stanton — “Women should vote” Larry Tesler — “No person should be trapped in a mode” Doug Engelbart — “Enable mankind to solve solve the world’s urgent problems” (a vision of “knowledge workers” using complex powerful information tools to harness our collective intelligence) Alan Kay — “Amplify human reach and bring new ways of thinking into a faltering civilisation that desperately need it”...

January 13, 2014 Â· 2 min Â· 339 words

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How long can you work on making a routine task more efficient before you’re spending more time than you save? (across 5 years) (via xkcd: Is It Worth the Time? )

January 10, 2014 Â· 1 min Â· 31 words

📜 Creators need an immediate connection with what they’re making

Creators need an immediate connection with what they’re making Bret Victor ’s guiding principle (via his talk Inventing on Principle )

January 8, 2014 Â· 1 min Â· 21 words

🔗 Gross National Happiness (GNH)

Gross National Happiness (GNH) The assessment of gross national happiness was designed in an attempt to define an indicator and concept that measures quality of life or social progress in more holistic and psychological terms than only the economic indicator of gross domestic product (GDP). (via Chip Conley: Measuring what makes life worthwhile | Video on TED.com )

January 3, 2014 Â· 1 min Â· 58 words

🏞 Questions vs. Answers

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January 3, 2014 Â· 1 min Â· 40 words