November 2011
1 post
“(Once upon a time I would have described myself as “Slightly below average” in...”
– http://www.kalzumeus.com/blog/
October 2011
3 posts
“What you can spend and what you can afford are very different things.”
– Phil Sugar
A VC: What We Are Seeing (via fred-wilson)
“What you can spend and what you can afford are very different things.”
– Phil Sugar
A VC: What We Are Seeing (via fred-wilson)
August 2011
4 posts
“If you think you are an idealist, get off twitter, put down your placard, stop...”
– http://rosamicula.livejournal.com/540476.html
“Hindsight, I think, is a useless tool. We, each of us, are at a place in our...”
– R.A. Salvatore (via kari-shma)
July 2011
3 posts
“You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -...”
– Stephen Cove (via kari-shma)
June 2011
15 posts
“People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making...”
– Andrew Matthews (submitted by Sandelina)
“The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote.”
– Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)
“The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see...”
– Khalil Gibran (via julie911)
“Hi ananth! I just make a playlist on mixpod, get the code for blogger and just...”
– paperheart-t
“You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in...”
– Bufr Overflow: Please, make yourself uncomfortable.
“People have this romantic notion of inventors as people who go into caves and...”
– The Renaissance man: how to become a scientist over and over again | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine
“Focus by extremely talented teams beats breadth. It’s why we all exist.”
– What To Do When A Tech Giant Decides To Eat Your Lunch
“You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by...”
– Audrey Hepburn (via kari-shma)
“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows...”
– Bernard Meltzer (via julie911)
“We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the way in which it has been...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via quote-book)
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their...”
– Oscar Wilde (via theprincessleah)
May 2011
11 posts
“You are more than a list of mistakes and if anyone tells you otherwise, let it...”
– I Wrote This For You: The Names They Gave You (via kari-shma)
“When you are solving a difficult problem re-ask the problem so that your...”
– You Are Solving The Wrong Problem « Aza on Design
“So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You...”
– Mr. Black, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer | (via nubivagantmusings)
“A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one’s heart, chaff...”
– http://celestinechua.com/blog/best-friends/
April 2011
19 posts
How To Steal Like An Artist (And 9 Other Things... →
The point is: all the world’s a stage. You need a stage and you need a costume and you need a script. The stage is your workspace. It can be a studio, a desk, or a sketchbook. The costume is your outfit, your painting pants, or your writing slippers, or your funny hat that gives you ideas. The script is just plain old time. An hour here, or an hour there. A script for a play is just time measured...
How Good Bosses Can Help Smart People Become... →
If a person progressively increases his or her capacity to increase his or her contribution AND the costs of contributing keep reducing over a period of time, the person is getting smarter
“Keep cool; anger is not an argument.”
– Daniel Webster (via quote-book)
“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must...”
– George Bernard Shaw (via girlwithoutwings)
“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. Do not complain.”
– Maya Angelou
A design and usability blog: Signal vs. Noise (by... →
When you are solving a difficult problem, re-frame the problem so that your solution helps you learn faster. Find a faster way to fail, recover, and try again. If the problem you are trying to solve involves creating a magnum opus, you are solving the wrong problem.
“safety—whether in
conversation, business, or life—generally produces...”
Give up trying to be perfect. – The real world...