Reminders for myself
If you're small, you're in a position where it's to your advantage to be weird—you can have a point of view that the big tech companies never could. In the world of chairs—you're not going to build a cheaper chair than Ikea. Why not build something they couldn't—like a more interesting one
(Not Boring) Software Inc. • No More Boring Apps | (Not Boring) Software
The cowards never started and the weak died along the way. That leaves us, ladies and gentlemen. Us.
Phil Knight • Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
be a paradox. build one thing, but don't be one thing. be an artist and a capitalist. be a savage and saint. treat business like a game. treat fitness like meditation. believe in god. believe in yourself. war and art. spirit and profit. be an insatiable serial killer in work. be a golden retriever in life. do everything to the extreme. you should... See more
bluex.combjörk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
I work best from a place of zero ego and zero hope. I call this state being “lower than a worm.” A feeling that nothing will ever come of what I’m working on is crucial. A feeling of my smallness in relation to the world. I gotta be below the dirt. I am nothing and nobody. That frees me up. Who cares what a worm thinks, you know?