Thought poking
Words and ideas that poke your brain and make ya go huh
Thought poking
We have the power to adapt to change, and we have the power to give form to our future
-Bjarke Ingels
from TED Talk
Property is a trust to be enlarged for future generations.
[Outliers] Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street
from Hetty Green
When you try to do too much, you never get anywhere. Focus.
[Outliers] Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street
YES!
from Hetty Green
Watch your pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.
[Outliers] Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street
When you finally make it to the top, turn around and help someone else climb.
-Dion McNeeley, divorced single dad with three kids who started with his house as a rental and now has 18 rentals
... See moreOnce I thought that [writing this book] would be impossible. It was a skyscraper, massive and complete and unbearably far off. It taunted me from the horizon. But do we ever look at such buildings and assume they sprung up overnight? No. We’ve seen the traffic congestion that attends them. The skeleton of beams and girders. The swarm of builders
Replace brackets with your own project
from acknowledgements in Morning Star
We do as our fellows do, for few can bear the shame of doing otherwise. Why else war? Why else traditions?
-Nicator, pg. 586 Light Bringer
my bold
If you are raised in a house that is square, what shape do you think you will build your house when you are grown?
-Nicator, pg. 587 Light Bringer
In regards to humans being herd animals
Deletion requires courage that addition doesn’t
-Shane Parrish
from Brain Food #648