Said AlSalah
Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy: Goals set retroactively after an activity, like shooting a blank wall and then drawing a bullseye around the holes you left, or picking a benchmark after you’ve invested
from 100 Little Ideas by Morgan Housel
- I believe most people we spend time with should be “low maintenance, high intimacy
from 30 more things I believe by Andrew Ettinger
- To see takes time
from field notes on being a creative [pt. 1] by Spencer Chang
Georgia O’Keefe
- I am not sure that I exist, actually.
I am the writers that I have read; the people that I have I have met; the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
— Jorge Luis Borges, 1981from Latest Tweets / Twitter
- Fast iteration can make up for a lot; it’s usually ok to be wrong if you iterate quickly. Plans should be measured in decades, execution should be measured in weeks.
- Walking , Henry David Thoreau
- Reveries of the Solitary Walker , Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Ki (Trees), Kōda Aya
- Méditations poétiques , Alphonse de Lamartine
- A Field Guide to Getting Lost , Oristelle Bonis et Rebecca Solnit
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek , Annie Dillard
- The Gardener and His Master , Jean de La Fontaine
- A Philosophy of Walking , Frédéri
from Rêveries d'un Promeneur Averti by Henry David Thoreau
- met with but one or two persons in the course of his life who understood the art of walking, that is, of taking walks – who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering
from Rêveries d'un Promeneur Averti by Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau
- The definition-solving process is circular not linear.
You can't fully define a problem without starting to solve the problem. Nor can you predict when the problem is fully defined (or solved for that matter).
Clarity will eventually emerge.from Tweet by Cameron Moll