Observations

• There is a fascinating pattern of interactions(?) happening here, people are choosing more often than not to follow collections and not thecreators (sample size is way too small, take with grain of salt); which might be a weird thing to imagine at first, but that’s actually what we have always been doing, because I suspect, we’ve never

what do you have “unreasonably”high standards for?

We have no investors, no board of directors, no eyes on an exit. We feel a moral obligation to exercise our independence. To do things no one would give us permission to do. To try things other companies would be afraid to try. To skip safe, and go for original.

— 37signals

I think “And what else?” is the best coaching question in the world. It does two things: It extends the period of curiosity, and it tames your advice monster.

WALL-E was modelled after ET.

"Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things."

- Ray Bradbury

Remember those who did the invisible work of removing. Their legacy was not to build a sand castle, but to care for the beautiful beach on which we play.

— Steph Ango (kepano), What can we remove

A good system is designed to be periodically cleared of cruft. It has a built-in counterbalance. Without this pressure, our bias drives us to add band-aid after band-aid, until the only choice is to destroy the whole system and start from scratch.

— Steph Ango (kepano), What can we remove

There is no code faster than no code

— Kevin Henney

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

— Paul Atreides

(1965) Dune by Frank Herbert