Today I don’t see many thinkers, visionaries, technologists asking questions like, What’s next? Where do we go from here? How can we circumvent these interface limitations? How can we meaningfully change the way X is done? Can we create new advanced methods to achieve X, to actually make things better? - Ricardo mori

You have to go crazy to open the inner doors of the brain. It’s hard to return to normal life. You stop caring about most things. I’m stuck in the world I created. ”

the modern age of tech has been “optimization of means, but confusion of goals” (Anjan Katta) . a lot of smart ppl doing smart things for stupid outcomes

Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats. — Howard Aiken

And so the cycle turns. Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And — as I am increasingly, painfully aware — weak men create hard times.

“I want everything quiet and simple. For me: walking barefoot, sitting still, reading, listening to stories and now and then telling some myself. Eating fruit, drinking milk, longing to create, but with patience and many insights.” — Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter to Lou Salomé witten c. March 19

The gardeners dig a hole, drop in a seed and water it. They kind of know what seed it is, they know if planted a fantasy seed or mystery seed or whatever. But as the plant comes up and they water it, they don’t know how many branches it’s going to ha

The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be in the house, what kind of roof they’re going to have, where the wires are going to run, what kind of plumbing there’s going to

A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.

“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.” - Anatole France

information by itself almost never changes attitudes

“It’s not a question of whether you’re on the winning side, it’s only a question of whether you’re on the right side. And if the right side is the losing side, then fight the long defeat.”

leadership is saying what you mean and doing what you say

“When someone works with their hands, is a laborer. When someone works with their hands and mind, is a craftsman. But when someone works with their hands, mind, and heart…is an Artist”

It’s not for everyone. But it might be for you.

When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create. ― Why The Lucky Stiff

Better necessarily implies different

“If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius.” - Michelangelo

The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. – Alan Rickman

Let chaos reign, and then reign in chaos

I have seen construction jobs where literally 3 people stand to see one laborer work. (re bullshit jobs)

Only mediocrity is sure of itself

People fear what they don’t understand and hate what they can’t conquer. - Andrew Smith

Normal people care about the issues in their lives. Improving careers. Developing relationships. Learning skills. Feeling inspired. Growing wise. Being entertained.

Think incentives, not ideals

I’ve always loved the word, antipode and its adjectival form, antipodal. It sounds old fashioned, and conjures visions of steamships and khaki, sweating glasses of gin and quinine-laced tonic, from a bygone era

“when you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.” ― Why The Lucky Stiff

[This song is] so chill I open the freezer to let some warm air in – youtube comment

the secret to doing good research is to always be a little underemployed; you waste years by not being able to waste hours.

people can see themselves in someone more successful, but only exceptional people can also see themselves in those who aren’t or who are where they used to be. A redeeming trait

There’s always been this myth that really neat, fun people at home all of [a] sudden get very dull and boring and serious when they come to work, and it’s simply not true. - Steve Jobs

In the short run, the market is a voting machine. In the long run, it is a weighing machine. - Benjamin Graham, the father of the style of value investing favored by Warren Buffett

“I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. – j.r.r martin

Now I’m back to work. Games need to be made.

“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.” - Seth Godin

“The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone—that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born.” — Nikola Tesla

no government (or corporation) is your friend, and no people are your enemy

From the standpoint of interfaces, I think love is something that makes us feel less alone as users. It could be a set of features that allows users to communicate, or it could be an interface itself that interacts with the user.

Strength and power aren’t the same. Power needs to be continuously fed, or it’ll eat you up

“It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done, and then try to bring those things into what you are doing.” - steve jobs

Find hope where there is none because no one is going to give it to you – Tsem Rinpoche

If you can keep your cool, and not thrash about reacting to every dip or peak, you usually make out pretty well in the end.

“Almost no one is evil. Almost everything is broken.”

“Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of security and the delight of adventure.” — TS Eliot

They have no conception of the craftsmanship that’s required to take a good idea and turn it into a good product. And they really have no feeling in their hearts, usually, about wanting to really help the customers.” - steve jobs

The product sensibility and the product genius that brought them to that monopolistic position gets rotted out by people running these companies that have no conception of a good product versus a bad product.

And the product people get driven out of the decision making forums, and the companies forget what it means to make great products.

So the people that can make the company more successful are sales and marketing people, and they end up running the companies.

“It turns out the same thing can happen in technology companies that get monopolies, like IBM or Xerox. If you were a product person at IBM or Xerox, so you make a better copier or computer. So what? When you have monopoly market share, the company’s not any more successful.

“Success is 99% failure” Soichiro Honda

Give a hoot, don’t pollute

Normal people care about the issues in their lives. Improving careers. Developing relationships. Learning skills. Feeling inspired. Growing wise. Being entertained.