David Pennington

As soon as you start asking questions, you have an obligation to listen to the answers.

Today you rarely see the word “idle” except when used as a pejorative; to be idle is to be wasteful, and several of the most popular Internet startup companies have targeted underutilized resources such as idle cars (Turo, ZipCar), household equipment (SnapGoods), or empty bedrooms (Airbnb), allowing people to make use of them by renting them out... See more

1. Always be smartly dressed, well groomed relaxed and friendly polite and in complete control.


2. Make the world to believe in you and to pay heavily for this privilege.


3. Never worry assess discuss or criticize but remain quiet respectful and calm.


4. The lord chisels still, so don’t leave your bench for long.

THE LAWS OF SCULPTORS, Gilbert and George

In a world that glorifies individual success, we easily forget that our greatest power lies in our ability to come together.

Deep literacy is what happens when a reader engages with an extended piece of writing in such a way as to anticipate an author's direction and meaning, and engages what one already knows in a dialectical process with the text. The result, with any luck, is a fusion of writer and reader, with the potential to bear original insight.

This is what a frictionless world looks like. Everything accelerates, until you forget what it means to try.

For the most part, I was using my vast expertise in productivity to... make more content about productivity.

I now do drawings with no specific purpose to see what comes out. A blank sheet can be anything.