Raymond Nakamura
@raymondsbrain
Raymond Nakamura
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
Phil’s photo in Tokyo at the Samurai Ninja museum
Chapter 4: Life in Post-War Japan
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I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Dune Frank Herbert
For I have a single definition of success: you look in the mirror every evening, and wonder if you disappoint the person you were at 18, right before the age when people start getting corrupted by life. Let him or her be the only judge; not your reputation, not your wealth, not your standing in the community, not the decorations on your lapel. If... See more
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Commencement Address, American University in Beirut
One issue with corporate comms is there’s too much “how to build a boat” and not enough “why you should should yearn for the vast and endless sea”
Lulu Cheng Meservey • Tweet
"In science if you know what you are doing you should not be doing it.
In engineering if you do not know what you are doing you should not be doing it."
— Richard Hamming
In engineering if you do not know what you are doing you should not be doing it."
— Richard Hamming
• Use prompts to generate combinations. Pick two random ideas and ask: How do these differ? How do they overlap? How could they connect? Most attempts will go nowhere. The magic happens in the 10% that surprise you.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
When You May Have Found Your Twin on Instagram 😂🧘🏻♀️NAMASTE to fellow yogis out there with a sense of humor and being perfectly imperfect. You don’t have to know all the names for yoga poses in Sanskrit (asanas 😉); or be able to put your foot behind your head; or only eat leafy vegetables; or have self doubt because you can’t remember everybody’s... See more
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