bon mots

quotations to think about

“You can’t talk butterfly language with caterpillar people.”

Trish Deseine

"I don't need time. What I need is a deadline." — Duke Ellington

“The most important skill for getting rich is becoming a perpetual learner.”

Naval

Our bias is to always add more. More rules, more procedures, more code, more features, more stuff. Interdependencies proliferate, and gradually strangle us. Systems want to grow and grow, but without pruning, they collapse. Slowly, then spectacularly.

When a piece of trash drifts across the beach, it is our duty to pick it up so the next person can ... See more

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“To achieve greatness, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time”
Leonard Bernstein

I keep six honest serving-men

(They taught me all I knew);

Their names are What and Why and When

And How and Where and Who.

I send them over land and sea,

I send them east and west;

But after they have worked for me,

I give them all a rest.

I let them rest from nine till five,

For I am busy then,

As well as breakfast, lunch, and tea,

For they are hungry men... See more

I Keep Six Honest Serving Men

Jason Fried on company culture:

"You have to find the nature of things. That's the thing I've found to be the most useful tool in anything: trying to understand the true nature of an experience, place, or thing and rolling with the nature.

Any time you go against the true nature of something, you're just battling unnecessarily.

So yeah, figure it ou