Marty Bell
@martybell
Marty Bell
My job is not to think about what exists but rather what I want that does not yet exist.
Lessons I'm still learning
To feel creatively and intellectually alive, you have to stop mindlessly consuming the Internet and start mindfully curating it.
Keep your identity small. “I’m not the kind of person who does things like that” is not an explanation, it’s a trap. It prevents nerds from working out and men from dancing.
How do you get from starting small to doing something great? By making successive versions. Great things are almost always made in successive versions. You start with something small and evolve it, and the final version is both cleverer and more ambitious than anything you could have planned.
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
Instead, good communities like this are decentralized networks of many micro-communities, where there are a few superconnectors that form the fast, efficient “backbone” interconnect of the larger community.
Linus Lee • A cellular theory of communities | thesephist.com
Happiness is not how many things you do, but how well you do them.
Brianna Wiest • 101 Essays That Will Change The
Think of life as an opportunity to create and give.
“if I have to work, I find it preferable (and less painful) to work intensely for very short hours, then do nothing for the rest of the time assuming doing nothing is really doing nothing), until I recover completely and look forward to a repetition, rather than being subjected to the tedium of Japanese style low-intensity interminable office hours
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