The devil is doing fine on his own, he doesn’t need an advocate.
— The Truth About Shipping by Seth Godin
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You hear a lot about “quality time” being valuable, but I think quality attention is invaluable. Giving someone your attention is giving more than just giving your time.
— Jason Fried - Your Attention Please
Healthy people — who know how to deal with disappointment, who have given up on the idea of magic bullets, who don’t watch TV indiscriminately, who are fulfilled by things that don’t cost money — are poor consumers, and so the very-high-level marketers have nurtured a culture which produces the exact opposite.
— How to Make Trillions of Dollars by David Cain
“Good enough” is not something I strive for, but the reality is, in some situations it’s better to launch and iterate than to delay and meticulously pour over every detail. This concept is directly applicable to a project I’m currently working on, and definitely some advice worth heeding.
via Startup Quote
…anxiety is freedom, and the way you are living will have been your life.
— John Lanchester’s Can Money Set You Free?
The just-give-it-away-for-free-and-they-will-come-and-we’ll-be-rich automatron is as broken now as it was in 2001.
— Word of the day: Automatron. via Eyeballs Still Don’t Pay The Bills
When the ecosystem stops rewarding complexity, it is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.
— Clay Shirky writes about The Collapse of Complex Business Models in his blog. via @nytimesbits
