February 2012
6 posts
“The brave ones were shooting the enemy. The crazy ones were shooting film.”
– US Marine Norman T. Hatch on combat photographers (via demons)
“It sounds subtle, but these are the only days where I find myself getting...”
– Start every day as a producer, not a consumer - Journal - Daniel Howells
/via @eric_wvgg
(via pieratt)
“In terms of instant relief, canceling plans is like heroin.”
– John Mulaney (via poopsadaisy)
January 2012
10 posts
“Christopher Nolan views anarchy with dread, and human behavior in the absence of...”
– Taylor Marvin (via ayjay)
“Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your...”
– Jonathan Coulton, definitively. (via merlin)
“I believe in pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. I believe it is...”
– Stephen Colbert (via luckyshirt)
“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by...”
– George Bernard Shaw
December 2011
14 posts
“There is nothing but water in the holy pools I know, I’ve been swimming...”
– Kabir
All evil begins with 15 volts →
“I learned that money can be a lot of things. It can be something that is...”
– Louis CK: Live at the Beacon Theater (via david-noel)
“When ideas are blocked, information deleted, conversations stifled and people...”
– NYT, 12/9/2011 (via informationarbitrage)
”..There’s just the Internet.”
Don't Be A Free User →
If every additional user is putting money in the developers’ pockets, then you’re less likely to see the site disappear overnight. If every new user is costing the developers money, and the site is really taking off, then get ready to read about those synergies.
“Stability is good when a society is peaceful and prosperous. Stability is evil...”
– Freeman Dyson reviews legendary psychologist and Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman’s new book, Thinking, Fast and Slow — a must-read (via curiositycounts)
November 2011
9 posts
“When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart...”
– Joel on Architecture Astronauts (and Software) in April 2001 (via cacioppo)
A brief rant on the future of interaction design →
bijan sabet: Some thoughts about A/B testing →
bijan:
At lunch today, Andrew reminded me of a story that I had long forgotten.
When he was at USV, he attended a board mtg for a portfolio company that we have in common.
It was the early days of that company and their initial product hadn’t been out that long.
The topic of A/B testing came up…
“no one likes to change until the pain of not changing is worse than the change...”
– jamie oliver (via saucy)
October 2011
9 posts
Chutzpah →
Chutzpah is a closer approximation to ego in capturing what makes a product driver good or bad. You have to be daring, tempt the gods. You need a certain amount of hubris to think that you can bring something big and new into the world.
Why not.
It’s not as if any of us get out of this alive.
“Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of...”
– P.G. Wodehouse
1 tag
“The act of writing allows me to feel truly alive. Knowing that I have sold 140...”
– Paulo Coelho on Six Secrets to Mastering Facebook and Twitter - Speakeasy - WSJ
“Tell me, friends, do you understand how wonderful I am? Because I must tell you, I cannot grasp it. My magnificence has far exceeded my poor abilities to comprehend magnificence. Who am I, really, in comparison to the...
September 2011
16 posts
“Tumblr is an anti-social social network.”
– #Tumblr vs #Facebook : Ask A Teen If You Want To Know The Difference (via bijan)