provocations
provocative ideas, musings, and statements to mull on
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provocations
Education is what, when, and why to do things. Training is how to do it.
In science, if you know what you are doing, you should not be doing it. In engineering, if you do not know what you are doing, you should not be doing it.
-Richard Hamming
a glorious rewrite of the giving tree. much rather model society on this.
Silence is not just the absence of noise but the presence of truth.
An underrated way to succeed at anything is simply to be ten times better.
Everyone wants to have a unique idea or be a monopoly but you can just be ten times better instead. In a lot of areas, no one is really trying. The world is coated with a film of inertia.
“It’s good to have people in your life who you don’t want to disappoint.” – Warren Buffett
Morgan Housel • Smart Things Smart People Said
Put a bag of cookies in the break room and it might sit for days.
Open the bag and leave it out, and within an hour, all the cookies will be gone.
We are happy to take a tiny slice off the thing that’s being shared, but we hesitate to open the bag.
The same is true with all of the initiatives in our culture. Design, movements and ideas are all trapped... See more
Open the bag and leave it out, and within an hour, all the cookies will be gone.
We are happy to take a tiny slice off the thing that’s being shared, but we hesitate to open the bag.
The same is true with all of the initiatives in our culture. Design, movements and ideas are all trapped... See more
Open The Cookies, Seth Godin
Embrace win-lose ideas
