Jonathan Quaade
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Jonathan Quaade
The words of Paul Mazur, a leading Wall Street banker working for Lehman Brothers in 1927, are cited: "We must shift America from a needs- to a desires-culture. People must be trained to desire, to want new things, even before the old have been entirely consumed. [...] Man's desires must overshadow his needs."
The Century of the Self
Write a hundred pieces. Each time take one thing and make it better: a better title, better structure, better ending, better descriptions, better dialogue. Just one thing. It adds up," and "Don’t think too much about how it’s supposed to be done, what others are doing, or what the conventions demand. Just try to amuse yourself.
When we think of the kind of modern crises that we're facing, is that with the internet as the sort of spawn point, the origin point, none of it is really big enough. It's a sort of terrible thing to think about, but like climate change as a story, the idea of solving climate change as a story arc is not it. Actually, it's a regression from
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Work isn’t war
Working on difficult problems is also intellectually more rewarding to an engineer, which is who I am, after all. To sustain that interest though, it's important to work on a fun hard problem, one you are passionate about.
archive.org • Some Lessons Learned
My high-level advice—which supersedes everything below—is that you should decide what you want from your writing, and then completely ignore any advice which detracts from this goal.
people think they want choices. but they prefer good defaults.