Gus Guerrero
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Gus Guerrero
An implicit ending makes it difficult to fully give one’s heart to another, and yet, even in its finiteness, time cannot limit or end love.
Morgan Ome • Expiration Dates
“Fiction is just gossip about people who happened to be make-believe.” — Lynn Barnes
“Late style arrives when you realise that you are: competent enough to write those things you wanted to write when you were twenty-five; impatient enough to have one more go at going all the way; angry enough not to allow anyone else to persuade you to do something else. At the same time, late style is cold, amused, contemptuous and savage about... See more
Today our eccentrics—by which I mean those who push at the boundaries of the acceptable—are more likely to provoke for the sake of provoking, not to expand possibilities but usually out of petty resentment; they are most often trolls. In shorter supply are public figures who act earnestly and gleefully, who use their idiosyncrasies and status as... See more
“The chief utility of a general theory... of strategy lies in its ability not to point out lessons, but to isolate things that need thinking about. Theory provides insights and questions, not answers.”
Strategy, Rediscovered? — Martin Weigel
“All those things that I've always tried to push away — having a vivid imagination or asking weird questions or whatever, I gave them a voice by writing and that's now what I do. So, all those things that I was so ashamed of or that made me feel really weird, are now what I actually like about myself. My writing has taken me places that I really
... See morehe can write about anything he wants, but this freedom feels like a prison. “The less free I am, the freer I appear to be,” he tells the reader, in one of the book’s many takedowns of the creative life.
Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen (2016) put it even more concisely:
Theories then, are ideas about how things work - about causality and how to create change. And those who dismiss theory dismiss the practical application and power of ideas.
“A theory is a statement of causality. It’s a statement of what causes what and why.”
Theories then, are ideas about how things work - about causality and how to create change. And those who dismiss theory dismiss the practical application and power of ideas.