There is a big difference between being interested in something and being committed to something.

Committed people do what interested people won’t.

The thing that’s vexing you: is it a situation or a problem?

Problems have solutions. If we care enough, we can find a way to solve a problem, but it might cost more money, require more effort or involve more risk than we’d prefer. If we’re ready to ease some of the constraints, that problem might go away.

Situations don’t have solutions. That’s why ... See more

I also find that within every Big Thing, there’s a hidden (to greater or lesser degrees) record of the process of its making, like thumbprints on a handmade clay vase. With so much time sitting and working, your subconscious can’t help but make itself felt, in tics of grammar or vocabulary or pet themes that return again and again.

A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men - Roald Dahl

Make a list of the people in your field who enjoy unfair advantages. How can you collaborate with them?

strategy is the very human act of imagination. ‘Seeing’ what does not yet exist. Seeing things as they could be. As we would want them to be.

people follow people and not titles, and that leadership is a role and not a job title

In “Ontological Designing”, Anne-Marie Willis introduces the concept of Ontological Design, articulating that “we design our world, while our world acts back on us and designs us.” Ontological Design describes the relation act of shaping and being shaped by what we build.

American society’s extreme individualism, electronic financial system, and thoroughly impersonal consumer retail setup mean that most adults can obtain 99% of their essential needs without real social networking of any kind. The system we live in is established mostly on impersonal trust. Every ordinary product or service in America is available wi... See more