sublime
Every “overnight success” is the result of years of thankless work. Success comes not from great acts of genius but from doing lots of small things consistently
23 Truths I Wish I Knew at 23
There’s something deeply satisfying about doing a great job, to the best of your ability. No matter whether you’re a solo entrepreneur, or at a hot startup, or massive company. Entry level or VP. The first recognition has to come from yourself.
If you consider yourself a technologist, here’s your imperative: build things that are unabashedly, beautifully tangled into all else in life — people and relationships, politics, emotion and pain, understanding or the lack thereof, being alone, being together, homesickness, adventure, victory, loss. Build things that come alive, and drag... See more
Create things that come alive
“Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and in this hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.”
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John Berger
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John Berger
A quote by John Berger
Authenticity is honoring yourself and others with equal sensitivity to the shifting conditions on the ground. When you are humbled, when you need to adjust your behavior, when you recognize that you’ve strayed from your ideals, those are the exact moments when joy is knocking on your door, asking to come in and light up your life in new ways.
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... See moreBecause what I’ve learned from having the privilege of working in a place that asks for my best and helps me get there is how much it can unlock in a life. The benefits extend far beyond the skills required to get great work done. The really, really good stuff comes from looking back on something you created and thinking, “I had no idea I could do... See more
Brie Wolfson • What I Miss About Working at Stripe
“It is a joy to be hidden, and a disaster not to be found.”
