Thought poking
Words and ideas that poke your brain and make ya go huh
Thought poking
... 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
What would you do with your life if all jobs paid the same?
Adapted from Timeleft newsletter
make something wonderful > make something fast
people don’t buy products when they understand them. they buy products when they feel understood.
Keys to a story:
Invoke wonder
Make the audience care
Give 2+2, not 4
There must be change
When people fail to find their niche, and when we fail to helpthem find it, we don’t just suffer from their absence. We also suffer from their presence in the wrong place.
Adam Mastroianni • There's a Place for Everyone
“If we had to please investors, we’d have stringent financial controls, we’d have to explain and justify every decision. That would be bad business for people who rely on strong feelings about what’s right rather than on black and white “facts,” which often turn out to be false. If you’re your own boss, you can move fast. When ideas have to be... See more
Shane Parrish • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
Estée Lauder
Greed and a feeling of inadequacy aren’t the only reasons people keep secrets. Sometimes they hide things—information, the truth, themselves—behind layers of secrecy simply because they’re afraid.
-Fire & Ash, pg. 275, Jonathan Maberry
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as of you were to live forever.
-Mahatma Ghandi