Agalia Tan
- Surround yourself with people who think big. And if you can’t find them, listen to their podcasts. You’ll live a lot differently.
from How to win in your 20s
If it’s going to be different, the forces involved need to be different as well.
- I notice we tend to talk about challenger brands from the implicit position of ‘Blimey! Who would have guessed that would work?!’ Yet from the very first second you hear a good challenger idea, it’s screamingly obvious when it’s gonna slay⁵. The whole challenger approach IS JUST ANOTHER CHAPTER IN THE BOOK OF CONVENTIONAL WISDOM INNIT.
- Software engineer Kent Beck on why creators struggle to release projects (and why people in general don't take action):
"By far the dominant reason for not releasing sooner was a reluctance to trade the dream of success for the reality of feedback."from 3-2-1: When to be patient, why we procrastinate, and the importance of early attempts
Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“Knowledge itself is power,” Francis Vacon wrote in the sixteenth century, but in the Internet era, sorting knowledge might be even more powerful. Information is now easy to find in abundance; making sense of it, knowing which information is useful, is much harder.
— Filterworld, Kyle Chayka
- Everything happens in cycles: flow —> resistance —> stuckness —> renewal Embrace the cyclical nature of everything
from 30 Lessons From Art / Business / Life — Kening Zhu
- Designing for physical touch is understanding that our bodies require moving through emotions — that we must finish the emotional cycle to actually process and integrate and move forward. That might look like giving folks a ten minute break to take themselves for a walk after a hard conversation, before they come back together to work on whatever c... See more
"I don't need time. What I need is a deadline." — Duke Ellington