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- If you are a Manager, or in any capacity of leading a team and are also reporting to someone, at work, “Coach down, Manage up”.
from Sublime
- Six years ago I celebrated my 68th birthday by gifting my children 68 bits of advice I wished I had gotten when I was their age. Every birthday after that I added more bits of advice for them until I had a whole book of bits. That book was published a year ago as Excellent Advice for Living , which many people tell me they read very slowly, just on... See more
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From Kevin Kelly on The Technium
- You may be set in your ways, in your thinking, in your estimate of others, but are you willing to change when there is evidence?
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- The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.
from Quote Origin: Fascist Movement – To Fascinate Fools and Muzzle the Intelligent – Quote Investigator® by byquoteresearch
#words-strung-together-perfectly
Bertrand Russell in his essay Freedom and Government, in a collection of essays titled “Freedom: Its Meaning” edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen
- I would like to be paid like a plumber: I do the job and you pay me what it's worth. The record company will expect me to ask for a point or a point and a half. If we assume three million sales, that works out to 400,000 dollars or so. There's no fucking way I would ever take that much money. I wouldn't be able to sleep.
from I would like to be paid like a plumber by Shaun Usher
- “Fidelity to daily tasks” is Albert Borgmann’s line, quoted in the same post I linked to a few lines up.
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Facebook's Little Red Book Remastered.pdf
- “If he who is organized by the divine for spiritual communion, refuse and bury his talent in the earth, even though he should want natural bread, shame and confusion of face will pursue him throughout life to eternity.”
from You’ll be miserable if you don’t do what you’re supposed to do - Austin Kleon by Austin Kleon
- I see us as always having two distinct options: you either 1) consider all possible games and then use your won influence wisely, or 2) design a custom game for you alone to play that shamelessly follows the nose of your satisfaction. Don’t try to play both at the same time or you’re bound to feel frustrated by failing to achieve influence or satis... See more