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Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. — Dr. Seuss
Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. — Dr. Seuss
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
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/ )
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)
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 ....
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”...
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? )
Creators need an immediate connection with what they’re making Bret Victor ’s guiding principle (via his talk Inventing on Principle )
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 )
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