February 2011
13 posts
"Stay hungry, stay foolish"
Steve Jobs:
You can’t connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something—your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever—because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you...
No time is no excuse
Excerpt from what is quickly becoming a fixture on my nightstand, Rework, by Jason Fried & David Hansson (37Signals)
The most common excuse people give: ‘There’s not enough time.’ They claim they’d love to start a company, learn an instrument, market an invention, write a book, or whatever, but there just aren’t enough hours in the day.
Come on. There’s...
Excerpt from Ayn Rand’s journal she kept during the writing of The Fountainhead (one of my fav books):
Feb. 27, 1937
Incidental question: a librarian writing about library building, insists that libraries must be made to look as accessible to the public as possible-to “bring the library nearer to the people,” “Spacious and living entrances are placed at grade level,...
“A legendary hero is usually the founder of something—the founder of a new age,...”
– Joseph Campbell, Hero with a Thousand Faces
