April 2010
1 post
What’s the most critical factor in any business decision you’ll ever...
– Business Stripped Bare - by Richard Branson | Derek Sivers
January 2010
1 post
You can be the greatest designer on the planet, have the most intriguing...
– Sam Brown ~ Learn To Fucking Spell
December 2009
1 post
There’s never really a great way to apologize, but there are plenty of terrible...
– “What Matters Now” - Seth Godin’s new free eBook - (37signals)
November 2009
1 post
We’re not sure why the company bothered inventing Magsafe — surely...
– Plug versus Plug - Page 2 - Crave at CNET UK
September 2009
1 post
And when people aren’t allowed to be useful, they soon think that...
– Geoff Mulgan: Post-crash, investing in a better world | Video on TED.com
August 2009
1 post
What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and...
– Personal Development for Smart People - by Steve Pavlina | Derek Sivers
July 2009
2 posts
Now that you’re safely home, unbox your new beauty and bask in its...
– Introduction Teardown
News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising,
– Our Reaction To Your Reactions To the Twitter Confidential Documents Post
June 2009
2 posts
I don’t care how good you are at programming, finding bugs, whatever. If you’re...
– A design and usability blog: Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)
The human brain starts working
the moment you are born and
never stops until...
– Why Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes
May 2009
2 posts
if you review your first site version and don’t feel embarrassment, you spent...
– 10 lessons from a failed startup » VentureBeat
it’s not failure that companies need to avoid, but rather “failing expensively.
– The only plan is to learn as you go - (37signals)
February 2009
1 post
When we played in Moscow at the Moscow Peace Festival back in ‘89 And we...
– Wind Of Change [Live] lyrics by Scorpions
January 2009
1 post
When people believe in boundaries, they become part of them.
– Presentation Zen: Jazz and the art of connecting
December 2008
2 posts
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to...
– Reinhold Niebuhr
The goal with products is to give people a great story to tell, so they can tell...
– Mark Hughes, author of “Buzzmarketing”
October 2008
2 posts
Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to...
– David Allen
David Axmark resigned stating “I HATE all the rules that I need to follow, and I...
– 451 CAOS Theory » What did I miss?
September 2008
2 posts
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your...
– The Albert Einstein Experience: Jokes, Relativity and Black Holes
We came up with a name [for a company], `Telemon,’ ” says Meyer....
– U.S. News 10/13/97
August 2008
2 posts
When dealing with git, it’s best to work in small bits. Rule of thumb: if...
– Git for the lazy - Spheriki
Let’s face it, if hosting The Tonight Show for 30 years didn’t turn Johnny...
– Introverts and Extraverts
July 2008
2 posts
What’s the point of having airport security if $100 a year gets you past...
– How to Change the World: Father’s Day Gift Suggestion: Clear Card
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we...
– Presentation Zen: Sir Ken Robinson: We need to transform education
June 2008
3 posts
If there’s something worse than not being part of the conversation...
– advergirl
Page X of Y. Ever wonder why so many financial and legal documents
use a page...
– Amazon.com: Real World Adobe InDesign CS3 (Real World): Olav Martin Kvern, David Blatner: Books
hen there’s our building. Steve Jobs basically designed this building. In the...
– Pixar’s Brad Bird on Fostering Innovation - GigaOM
May 2008
3 posts
My challenge this week is to draw a whiteboard diagram that looks vaguely like a...
– Twitter / Matthew Rothenberg: My challenge this week is t…
if they can put up with windows, they can put up with badly rendered CSS.
– technomancy, snitched by mattly, in #caboose (via caboose) amen! (via squishtastic)
I met my wife on your captcha!!!” — Steve, from New York
– Captcha Mashup
April 2008
3 posts
Life is too short not to love what you do, and it’s much, much too short to wait...
– Quit your job! - (37signals)
… there are some HR companies that will shuffle all the resumes for the week and...
– Do You Know That… : Public Speaking Information & News
Bureaucracies are built by and for people who busy themselves proving they are...
– Excerpts from Ricardo Semler’s book “Maverick: The Success Behind the World’s Most Unusual Workplace” - (37signals)
March 2008
3 posts
For every one of our failures, we had spreadsheets that looked awesome
– Playbooks and Tipsheet
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people...
– How to Get a Life
Oh, and one last thing - if you think that your $300 flash can light the stage...
– Photo Business News & Forum: So, You Want to Shoot Concerts? - Getting Started, The Right Way
February 2008
8 posts
Find a problem that’s not solved and try to solve it in a way that’s profitable....
– Ricky Van Veen (via hrrrthrrr)
If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with...
– A great quote about size - (37signals)
One of my MBA professors would never let us finish a sentence if we used sound...
– 10 Phrases Every Freelancer Should Kick-Out of Their Vocabulary - FreelanceSwitch - The Freelance Blog
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice,...
– Theory and Practice - (37signals)
If it is known exactly what is going to be done, why do it?
– Pablo Picasso - Wikiquote
It’s not until the tide goes out that you realize who’s swimming naked .
– 10 Insights From 11 Months Of Working At Google | Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
A ship is safe in the harbor, but that is not what ships were built for.
– How to Survive in this Crazy World | PickTheBrain
When my daughter was seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I...
– Learning to Dream…. Again » I will change your life . com
January 2008
6 posts
Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
– Robert A. Heinlein
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde
– What Makes Great Blogwriting?
How is this for an ADHD moment — I just read this post and completely...
– Do People Choose Specific Types of Spouses? | ADHD & Marriage
A study of business school graduates tracked the careers of 1,500 people from...
– Do What you Love and Money Will Follow? : The Practice of Leadership
All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts...
– The Unofficial Samba HOWTO
Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to...
– In praise of lazy - (37signals)