this desire to make something with my hands instead of my brain.

The best parenting advice i once heard is, ‘If they are crabby, add water.’ This has served me well over the years and believe it or not, with a 2, 7 and 9 year-old. Run a bath, take a shower, water the garden, have a hot drink, have a cold drink… just add water. It works 99% of the time.

It reminds me of the Isak Denisen quote:

“The cure for anythin

Existence is this delightful dance between nothing and everything.

-a great line via John Mackey, the whole story

There is a big difference between the existence of knowledge in some other place and its availability to the right people in the right place at the right time. The crux of the matter is knowing how to integrate and organize fragmented, scattered and thinly spread knowledge.

-Dominique Foray The Economics of Knowledge

The story of Sylvester Stallone in 1975 sitting down to write a screenplay and, three and a half days later, emerging with the full script for Rocky:

“At that time, I must admit, my life was definitely on the wane, at least professionally, I was emotionally, spiritually, physically, bankrupt. So I had $106, rent was $300, I had a pregnant wife—you m

what do you have “unreasonably”high standards for?

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“The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band."

-Brian Eno.

“we maxed out intelligence but minimized wisdom”

“One of the things that we think about is what the benefit of an incremental feature is, who it's benefiting, and what the cost of that feature is. And the cost is really the important underemphasized thing in this equation. It's often obvious the type of person who's asking for it, more powerful ways to sort your tags or whatever. You know, there'