“You can’t plan to meet the people who will change your life.”
You might take this anecdote as just another example of Steve Jobs’s well documented obsession with imagining his own death as a motivation tool. This is a guy who later claimed he asked himself “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” in... See more
i sent this screenshot from a steve jobs email to a friend & we ended up talking about how so many people plan so aggressively now that they leave no space for natural chaos.
you ask someone when they’re free & they hit you with “september 15th.” months out. especially in nyc, this is... See more