February 2012
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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something,...”
–  Taken from Bryce Dot VC’s awesome piece on The Problem With “Innovation”, which was inspired by this gem of a quote: Startups don’t compete with airlines by purchasing a bunch of planes, hiring a bunch of pilots and locking up a bunch of terminals at airports. Startups compete...
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fLako “Loose Bells”
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“Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.”
– Bernard Meltzer
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The Bubble Bubble →
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“It’s the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your...”
– I’m still blown away by Shawn Achor’s TED talk on The Happy Secret To Better Work… I highly recommend investing 12 minutes of your day in Shawn’s entertaining and mind-opening presentation!
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What We Resist, Persists →
I got a lot from this awesome piece by heyamberrae. My favourite excerpt is pasted below. It really resonated with some advice that I got just last week: you can’t change the people and situations around you, but you can change the way you interact with them. Genius. Suddenly, I’m reminded of what I tell all my friends and clients who feel frustrated with their current situation: what we...
Feb 21st
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Awesome story-telling from Shawn Achor, explaining The Happy Secret To Better Work! We need to reverse the formula for happiness and success: “If I work harder, I’ll be more successful; and if I’m more successful, then I’ll be happier”… It is scientifically broken and backwards for two reasons. First, every time your brain has a success, you just change the...
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“I am fascinated. I think the human condition is about failure, basically. We are...”
– Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting, responding to the following question: You seem to be interested in exploring the darker forces of life. What is the attraction?
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“There’s no kill switch on awesome”
– Dilbert
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Well, that was pretty awesome…
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Eric Ries explaining The Lean Startup “A startup exists in order to learn how to build a sustainable business. So it’s unit of progress is not how much stuff it has or how many customers it has, but fundamentally: is it figuring out the mechanics of how to build a sustainable business?”
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“WORRY ABOUT MISSED OPPORTUNITY BEST WAY TO MISS NEXT ONE. #FORWARDONLY”
– FAKEGRIMLOCK (of course!)
Feb 9th
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New Project!
Thanks to some awesome work by rockstar hacker Jay Whiting, we’ve now got a new project live - http://www.just1link.com/. The premise is simple: If you could share just one link all week, what would it be? Tell us what was the most thought-provoking article, the most interesting concept, the piece from which you learned the most… If your week could only be defined by one link, then...
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Inside The Entrepreneur's Brain →
An interesting read which popped onto my screen care of my delightful chum Dan. Choice excerpt: What have you learned about the way an entrepreneur’s brain works? I’d always just gone and done something new and creative and innovate anytime it struck me. And building a brick-and-mortar business, suddenly I was dealing with stuff that wasn’t innovative, and suddenly I was...
Feb 7th
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“For a company to be successful there are literally only two functions the...”
– From Micah’s awesome post Just Fucking Sell
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