James Stevens
@redwolfwhite
Well red and well read.
Came for the creativity. Stayed for the community.
James Stevens
“[...] I am quite the fan of Professor Randolph Nesse’s theory of depression. Nesse and his colleagues speculate that depression could act as a biological constraint system that helps to minimise wasted effort and loss by forcing the individual to slow down, reassess, and potentially change strategies.”
The 5 Types of Wealth: The life-changing international bestseller, a guide to building a happier, healthier, wealthier life: Amazon.co.uk: Bloom, Sahil: 9780008623203: Books
click.convertkit-mail4.com
Walter Isaacson's Elon Musk book is out. It kicks off with the following quote:
"To anyone I've offended, I just want to say, I reinvented electric cars and I'm sending people to Mars in a rocket ship. Did you think I was also going to be a chill, normal dude?"
Modern aspiration is not about having money to buy things, but having taste to know what to buy.
"Yet ideas never stand alone. They come woven in a web of auxiliary ideas, consequential notions, supporting concepts, foundational assumptions, side effects, and logical consequences and a cascade of subsequent possibilities. Ideas fly in flocks. To hold one idea in mind means to hold a cloud of them." (Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants)
Manic Street Preachers - A Design For Life
youtube.comCollection name lyric source…
"It is rarely a mysterious technique that drives us to the top, but rather a profound mastery of what may well be a basic skill set."
—Josh Waitzkin
Mastery of basics, not secret techniques, makes legends.
Look at Roger Gracie's BJJ dominance—leverage and positioning. Jiro... See more
that kind of luxe just ain't for us; we crave a different kind of buzz
What’s interesting here is that Quantitative = squandering. Examples being ‘100 waiters when one will do the job / using 3 matches to light a single cigar.’
The web is infinite. Software offers no limits. Hence software is - by this definition - has negative connotations.