If there’s something worse than not being part of the conversation it’s pretending to be part of the conversation.
Page X of Y. Ever wonder why so many financial and legal documents
use a page numbering scheme that tells you how many pages
there are in the document? For some documents, the simple knowledge
that *there is an end* is required to maintain one’s sanity.
hen there’s our building. Steve Jobs basically designed this building. In the center, he created this big atrium area, which seems initially like a waste of space. The reason he did it was that everybody goes off and works in their individual areas. People who work on software code are here, people who animate are there, and people who do designs are over there. Steve put the mailboxes, the meetings rooms, the cafeteria, and, most insidiously and brilliantly, the bathrooms in the center—which initially drove us crazy—so that you run into everybody during the course of a day. [Jobs] realized that when people run into each other, when they make eye contact, things happen. So he made it impossible for you not to run into the rest of the company.
My challenge this week is to draw a whiteboard diagram that looks vaguely like a penis in every meeting I’m in, and pretend to not notice.
if they can put up with windows, they can put up with badly rendered CSS.
I met my wife on your captcha!!!” — Steve, from New York
Life is too short not to love what you do, and it’s much, much too short to wait around until someone hands you a billion dollars.
… there are some HR companies that will shuffle all the resumes for the week and then throw the first 50 in the trash can because they do not want to hire unlucky people?
Bureaucracies are built by and for people who busy themselves proving they are necessary, especially when they suspect they aren’t.
For every one of our failures, we had spreadsheets that looked awesome
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. – Dale Carnegie
Oh, and one last thing - if you think that your $300 flash can light the stage better than a $10k-$1M lighting truss, operated by a skilled technician who took all day to get the light perfect on stage, then stop taking pictures and revisit lighting 101.
Find a problem that’s not solved and try to solve it in a way that’s profitable. Don’t be influenced by what people have been doing so far in that area and don’t be afraid to try new things that may seem crazy compared to the status quo. That’s when innovation happens.
If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.” -Betty Reese
One of my MBA professors would never let us finish a sentence if we used sound fillers. It was agonizing at first, but really paid off by the end of the semester
