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I started taking dance classes and discovered that a girl’s attitude toward you improves considerably if you spin her really fast. Forget everything

my ordinary life (@calne.ca)

Anyhow, when you are doing something in a recurring way to diminish risk or doing it in the same way as you have done it before, it is clear why profe

But the point is that anybody who is in this for the long haul has to decide how to respond to change in the zeitgeist. What is it that people now exp

I also believe that drawing works in the same way. I am a great advocate of drawing, not in order to become an illustrator, but because I believe draw

Friendship, however, has always depended on a certain irrational generosity. A willingness to waste time together magnificently. To listen to the same

What else do you tell younger people, other people in your business? Tom Cruise: I listen first: What do they want? It’s not me. I’m more interested i

I want to build the most important food company in the 21st century.

‘Never have a job, because if you have a job someday someone will take it away from you and then you will be unprepared for your old age. For me, it h

Reading Design is not a magazine or a journal and many or most of the texts here will have been published before. They might be papers, transcriptions

I’ve always had this sense that if you build a container for something, you will make things to fill it. What I frequently do is try to figure out dif

How to turn a corner.24. How to design a corner.25. How to sit in a corner.

One experiment you can run is noticing how similar fear and excitement are (hint: fear is often just clenched excitement). Next time you’re afraid of

Born to an uncommonly elderly father who had already outlived the era’s life expectancy twofold, Tsunetomo grew up so sickly that the family doctor de

To give one example, I’ve had the privilege of working with many many smart and talented people over my career. It is vanishingly rare to see failure

Shared albums are broken, no one likes them. Do we want a shared album? Aren't albums meant to belong to someone, that you show people but don't allo

How do we get more Wilbur Wrights in the world and fewer cynical New York Times headlines?

What would I do if I had 10x the agency?

Rumination Trap Escape Route: How can I take action on this now?

ather than create clocks that produce uniformity and ensnare us in regularity, why not create clocks that suit your pattern of being, whose minutes fo

TIME ASSETS are actions or choices you make today that will save you time in the future.Software is a classic example of a time asset. You can write a

Also, consider stand-up comedy: hundreds of strangers paying one person to trigger involuntary spasms of the diaphragm. My suspicion is that the enorm

4. Remember tomorrow I did a 36-hour endurance event. The goal: hike the equivalent of Mt. Everest. On the mountain, @JesseItzler shared a lesson.

Generic ambition will give you anxiety. Specific ambition will give you direction.

Financial institutions spend enormous effort measuring whether a customer is creditworthy. It has not occurred to most product teams that the custome

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