March 2012
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“I have to admit I’m starting to experience a kind of “favoriting” fatigue —...”
– David Carr, Hashtag Activism, And Its Limits
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“If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t.”
– Chuck Palahniuk
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“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
– Confucius
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“Solitude is not about being alone, it is about reconnecting with yourself and...”
– via Ross Hill
Solitude
As I write this I am sitting on a park bench in a quiet little park. I have just moved here from a quiet coffee I enjoyed by myself in a crowded cafe, after a conversational breakfast with a group of friends. Most of my days are incredibly social and so when I get to the...
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Speechless
Seth Godin:
Unhappiness compounds.
Unaddressed, it compounds into frustration.
And frustration is the soul killer, the destroyer of worker and customer relationships, loyalty and progress.
The solution is pretty simple: address the unhappiness. Change the system or talk about the problem or acknowledge it if that’s all that can be done. None of this can happen, though, unless...
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“Everyone winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.”
– Andy Warhol
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Loving The Internet →
I suppose earlier generations had to sit through all this huffing and puffing with the invention of television, the phone, cinema, radio, the car, the bicycle, printing, the wheel and so on, but you would think we would learn the way these things work, which is this:
1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal;
2) anything that gets invented between then and...
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“Go after her. Fuck, don’t sit there and wait for her to call, go after her...”
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Harvey Milk
Hmmmm…
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Work That Matters
Sam’s Theory of Work That Matters
Could you win a Nobel Prize for the work that you do? If not, what else can you do to help make the world a better place?
Trading stocks, flicking properties, advising businesses how to squeeze another 1% of profit - no one ever won a Nobel Prize doing those things.
Scientists, engineers, innovators, technologists - now you’re on the right track.
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Getting Stuff Done →
It’s hard to feel good about what you’ve done, if there’s an impending feeling you’ve still got many things to do.
Nicolas Jaar “Ishmael”
Better than...
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Stop Trying So Damn Hard →
I endorse this approach:
It feels counterintuitive, but if you want to do more, if you want to achieve more, if you want to get better results, go for a run as often as you can, take naps, stop trying so damn hard.
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Peering Around Corners →
shervster:
A diversity of experiences at a young age can transform a young mind to expand the horizons what they imagined was possible for them.
At every juncture I was blessed to peer around the corners of life and see there are layers within layers, borders beyond borders, boundaries beyond boundaries. That in the grand scheme of things boundaries and borders, walls and obstacles, were...
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Q-Tip & Erykah Badu “Poetry”
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Business Is Always About The Customer →
As of now, I’ve moved from my Corporate Strategy role in iiNet’s Finance team to a newly-created position in Products, overseeing the development of applications for our customers.
The key takeouts from this awesome article, Business Is Always About The Customer, are going to be top of my mind from here on in!
Let’s start with this snippet from Apple’s design guru,...
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“Weird” is a compliment.”
– Chris Sacca
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The Robert Glasper Experiment LIVE...
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“Someone once told me to think about expertise as a scale from one to ten, not as...”
– 5 Simple Principles for Becoming an Expert
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“The popular image of the visionary is someone with a clear view of the future,...”
– From Paul Graham’s piece on Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas
I also liked his description of what is wrong with email:
Email was not designed to be used the way we use it now. Email is not a messaging protocol. It’s a todo list. Or rather, my inbox is a todo list, and email is...
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Kenny Dope’s Hip Hop & Funk 45’s...