Ideas I want to write about

His abstract forms don’t just attract attention — they demand active interpretation, forcing viewers to create meaning rather than passively consume it.

What brands have realized is, you can create a “halo effect” around this that drives revenue for your brand. People line up to buy the limited edition stuff, and if they don’t get it, they still buy something less exclusive because they have already decided that your brand is cool and desirable and they want to advocate.

To opt out, though, is to be excluded.

World class leaders and companies are never defeated. They decide to defeat themselves by chanting the following mantras:

Cannot sacrifice margin.

New competitors and markets are too niche or too unsophisticated.

Customer and clients will not accept the change.

We do not have the skills and this sounds like a different business.

Literature is at once the most intimate and the most articulate of the arts. It cannot impart its effect through the sense or the nerves as the other arts can; it is beautiful only through the intelligence; it is the mind speaking to the mind ... if it fails to express precisely the meaning of the author, if it does not say HIM, [sic] it says... See more

Gall’s Law:

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.

“Please continue to carry out your activities with dignity, adhering to the philosophies that you hold dear.”

I will treat you with dignity, perhaps even kindness, but I am in no way interested in you.