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Steve Jobs, on Microsoft:
The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste, and I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of original ideas, and they don’t bring much culture into their product.
self-promotion is important:
In the months leading up to pub day, I sent approximately 8,613 emails out to friends, professional contacts, people I talked to once in a buffet line at a writing workshop 3 years ago, people who follow me on Twitter, and people who have never heard of me or my little book, offering them galleys and (in some cases!) dir
... See moreWild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Oprah's Book Club 2.0 1)
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“gentle and powerful” = both an oxymoron and also a highly desirable combination.
Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
by Erik Larson
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... See moreSuccess, Adele said she eventually realized, is like a “personality...[you have to consider] the whole package.” Your album can sweep the Grammys, but if you were miserable, lonely, sad, angry, and bitter while making it—was it truly a success? And conversely, your movie can flop, but if you loved making it, loved writing it, loved being with it, a
“What I care about is the reality of goodness, not the perception of it - and what I see all over the place is people who care about looking good while doing evil.”
-Elon Musk
- A big breakthrough for me – life as a whole – came when I figured out that making solid progress on creative work, and enjoying the process rather than hating it, is in large part a matter of being willing to be who you actually are.
- The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long. — Wittgenstein