June 2012
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The very things in your life that seem to be depressing and oppressing you right...
– James Lecesne and other prominent queer writers offer advice to their younger selves in The Letter Q: Queer Writers’ Notes to Their Younger Selves. (via explore-blog)
May 2012
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While the first draft can be crafted in the trenches of an altered state, the...
– What Happens When You Try and Drink Like Hemingway
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Let’s put it this way: if you can build a $100 billion company by using the...
– RealClearMarkets - Bigger Than Facebook (via pieratt)
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Inspiring hope in a cynical world might be the most radical thing you can...
– Jacqueline Novogratz addresses 2012 graduating seniors in a beautiful commencement speech. (via explore-blog)
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We’re so young. We’re so young. We have so much time. There’s this sentiment I...
– Keegan
It’s never too late to start. (via brycedotvc)
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ryangraves:
dane reynolds going nutz.
Sick.
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Shark Riders
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Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and...
– Neil Gaiman’s advice to young people embarking upon a career in the arts. (via explore-blog)
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish. In this world which is getting more and more...
– Priceless 1959 BBC interview with Bertrand Russell (via explore-blog)
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Designing and developing anything of consequence is incredibly...
– Jonathan Ive
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All I’ve ever wanted to do is design and make; it’s what I love doing. It’s...
– Apple’s design genius is British to the core
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When you control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his...
– Carter G. Woodson: Mis-Education of the Negro
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We can hope that as the Social Media wave runs its course a new wave of...
– Why Facebook is Killing Silicon Valley
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Musk is part of a new breed of celestial aspirants — entrepreneurs who...
– SpaceX
Self-respect is a discipline, a habit of mind that can never be faked but can be...
– Joan Didion (via explore-blog)
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fastcompany:
Leap Motion, a San Francisco startup has created a device (“the Leap”) that lets you control your computer just my moving your fingers over it, as if you were using a touchscreen in the air.
Read more->
Leap Motion is now taking pre-orders for the $69.99 device but won’t begin shipping it until the end of this year or early 2013. The company is also opening up its developer...
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The quickest way to get things done and make... →
Don’t demand authority.
Eagerly take responsibility.
Relentlessly give credit.
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Facebook’s business model - Chris Dixon →
Facebook relies on an old internet business model: display ads. Display ads generally hurt the user experience, and are also not very efficient at producing revenues.
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Marc Andreessen Visits Peter Thiel’s Stanford... →
“Even designers are becoming great CEOs—just look at Airbnb. They’ve got the whole company thinking in terms of design. Design is becoming increasingly important. Apple’s success doesn’t come from their hardware. It comes from OSX and iOS. Design is layered on top of that. A lot of the talk about the beautiful hardware is just the press not getting it. The best designers are the...
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Cameron Moll / Designer, Speaker, Author: Regret. →
cameronmoll:
Kathryn Schulz, as quoted by Maria Popova:
If we have goals and dreams and we want to do our best, and if we love people and we don’t want to hurt them or lose them, we should feel pain when things go wrong. The point isn’t to live without any regrets, the point is to not hate ourselves for…
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My last piece of advice is this simple… Persevere. Because nothing worthwhile is...
– President Obama, in his commencement address at Barnard College today (via barackobama)
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Jackson has never been ashamed of his work — “I entertained an enormous amount...
– How Samuel L. Jackson Became His Own Genre
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An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Scientists made a...
– What It Takes To Innovate: Wrong-Thinking, Tinkering & Intuiting :: Articles :: The 99 Percent
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Life is a choice. It is YOUR life. Choose consciously, choose wisely, choose...
– Inspiration and Chai
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Now, this isn’t an excuse for solutions to accomplish less. The irony of...
– The Simplicity Thesis