Brad Barrish
The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular for the next five hundred years. Only in the 1900s did we pluralise the term and start talking about priorities. Illogically, we reasoned that by changing the word we could bend reality. Somehow we would now be
... See morefrom Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg Mckeown
" Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. "
Howard Thurmanfrom Aliveness: Reframing Productivity by Thomas Klaffke
- Smart people are a dime a dozen and often don’t amount to much. What counts is being creative and imaginative.
from Invent and Wander Quotes by Jeff Bezos
You must mourn the loss of your younger self, the person who has gotten you this far but who is no longer equipped to carry you onward.
from The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery by Brianna Wiest
This really hit, but I like to think that in many ways I am a slightly smarter version of my younger self. I guess for some people there is a greater distance. Or I’m just in denial.
- Not long ago, America was more than the sum of its parts. Now, it is less. Around World War II, we were proud as a people but modest as individuals. Fewer than two people in ten said yes when asked, Are you a very important person? Today, more than six in ten say yes. Where we once thought ourselves collectively strong, we now regard ourselves as i... See more
from The Fourth Turning by William Strauss
- This week is probably the closest we’ve ever gotten in my lifetime to the brink of nuclear-powered World War 3, yet people seem strangely indifferent to the developments. I share in this under-reaction. Shouldn’t we, I don’t know, have a stronger collective reaction?
from Ark Head by Venkatesh Rao
- Big or small, old or new — or even hardware or software. It’s always true: underpromising and overdelivering is always the path to delight, but also always devilishly difficult to pull off. That’s the game.
from Reader
Hardware is hard and Experience is everything
Leave it to Gruber to say this in a way that just lands. Eric’s tweet was also great.