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What Jobs is referring to is the fundamental difference between "builders" and craftsmen, or why even though engineering builds, it is design which establishes . Essentially, products—no matter if they're technological in nature or not—do not exist in a vacuum. On the contrary, every single product worth its salt is designed to exist within a... See more

"We remember the past as being better than it actually was. We treat the present moment as far worse than it actually is." Oh my! I could cite so many objectively acknowledged events that negate both of those ideas. However, I'll just defer to Elwood P. Dowd who said, "Years ago, my mother used to say to me, she'd say 'In this world, Elwood, you... See more

Theres something so amazing about watching someone who is a master in their field, just do what they do. You can see the genius and true skill of what make them so great. Watching Paul with a guitar in his hand or at the piano is like watching Bob Ross paint a landscape.

We have a moral responsibility to shape the world with specific, defensible ideas that we believe in. Call it definite optimism, reclaiming agency, or finding your life's work. Building a great business, rallying a network, fostering a community – they all require redirecting collective attention. The technologist's job is not to redirect worship... See more

Einstein famously attributed some of his greatest physics breakthroughs to his violin breaks, which he believed connected different parts of his brain in new ways.

And worst of all, we’ve lost sight of the most salient part about computers: their malleability. We’ve acquiesced the creation of our virtual worlds, where we now spend most of our time, to the select few who can spend the millions to hire enough software engineers. So many of the photons that hit our eyes come from purely fungible pixels, yet for... See more

• Prince Andrei Bolkonsky: There must be something you want to do.


• Pierre Bezukhov: I want to discover... everything! I want to discover why I know what's right and still do what's wrong. I want to discover what happiness is, and what value there is in suffering. I want to discover why men go to war, and what they really say deep in their hearts when

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Spirituality’s highest purpose is to touch a mystery beyond words, which is perceived only in silence and solitude, the Grandmothers say. Listening within the silence puts one in touch with the energy, vibration, and spiritual forces that are at the heart of Creation. The realms are real, not of the imagination, and can only be reached by a quiet

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