alex
@alexwastaken
curious librarian
alex
“It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.”
― Anthony Doerr
“Some people dislike solutions precisely because they rob them of the opportunity to complain.” ―
warm minimalism
- Focus on connecting the dots. Most social platforms - be it Stumbleupon (now Mix), Cosmos, Tumblr, etc- focus on "inspiring" by making us jump from stimulus to stimulus. What I'm really interested in is meaning-making platforms that help us engage with stimulus to layer on new thoughts, comments, ideas. Kind of what "quote retweet" did for Twitter.
Billy Oppenheimer on small steps to get to big leaps:
One of Hugh Howey’s other hobbies is sailing. Once he had the luxury of writing full-time, he sailed around the world. “You can’t get to where you want to be in one day,” he says, “just like you don’t sail around the world in a day. You just look at the horizon and say, ‘I can sail that far.
... See more- If you know where you want to go in life, people tend to help or get out of the way. Both of those are useful.
There's no what if. There's only what happened.
-Wildcatters, Sally Helgesen
have never seen a well run business. ever. the best businesses are mediocrely run.
all businesses are loosely functioning, disasters, and some happen to make money
“If you want a new world, start making it right now, in whatever you are doing.”
-Brian Eno.
If you imagine the world you would like to be in and start making objects, systems and collaborations that belong to that world, that world comes into being.
- “nobody ever got fired for buying IBM.”