Beverley
@beverley
I am a Technology Entrepreneur quietly building humble but handy Internet businesses.
Beverley
- The math involved creates a serious existential dilemma. When there are ten thousand ways to spend your time, having enough time can only mean saying no to the vast majority of the things you’ve imagined yourself one day doing. And that means never becoming most of the people you imagined becoming: the novelist, the world traveler, the dinner party... See more
from Why There’s Never Enough Time by David Cain
- “mu”: A Japanese word for unasking the question because it’s fundamentally flawed or its conditions do not meet reality.
from Steyn Viljoen • Screen time: Unask the question ⁉️
- Steve Jobs once said, “ The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller . The storyteller sets the vision, values, and agenda of an entire generation that is to come.”
from Generalist Capital: In Search of Epics | The Generalist by Mario Gabriele
- I find explaining any actually interesting idea usually requires explaining like 5 subsidiary ideas. If you’re lucky. If you’re unlucky it’s like 25 and either they’re ready for a three hour lecture or you’re not going to succeed.
from Tweet by Emmett Shear
- Entrepreneurship is a personal growth engine disguised as a business pursuit.
from 3-2-1: Entrepreneurship, Habits, and the Joy of Climbing | James Clear by James Clear
- I feel like tech-land forgets that you can build really big services businesses.
from "I Guess We're A Services Company" by Nikhil Krishnan
As a marketing executive, I view business as one of the greatest adventures of the human enterprise—if not the greatest. But I am not just a businessman: I am also an unapologetic romantic.
from The Business Romantic by Tim Leberecht
I think we all want to be heard and music is a way to let out our inner emotional life, sometimes in a way that can’t necessarily be understood any other way. It functions different than prose or storytelling in that the music has an emotional base to it, even without the words. So you can feel this energy and express whatever’s going on inside of
... See morefrom Rick Rubin — Magic, Everyday Mystery, and Getting Creative by On Being
- The Japanese have a beautiful saying for this—a maxim that has survived through atomic bombs, economic collapse, and countless tsunamis: Shikata ga nai. “There’s nothing to be done, so move on.” Move forward. It takes a bit of self-deception to mind-wipe the regret and a truckload of moxie to push through the work of regaining control. But sometime... See more
from This Is Not a T-Shirt by Bobby Hundreds