March 2009
35 posts
“If the future doesn’t come toward you, you’ll have to go fetch it.”
– Zulu proverb
Startups in 13 sentences
Pick good cofounders.
Launch fast.
Let your idea evolve.
Understand your users.
Better to make a few users love you than a lot ambivalent.
Offer surprisingly good customer service.
You make what you measure.
Spend little.
Get ramen profitable.
Avoid distractions.
Don’t get demoralized.
Don’t give up.
Deals fall through.
by Paul Graham via Simplify
imperfection is beautiful
“Isn’t it beautiful,” the priest asked the master…
The master nodded. “Yes…your garden is beautiful; but there is something missing…”
The old gentleman walked slowly to a tree growing in the center of a harmonious rock and moss combination. It was autumn and the leaves were dying. All the master had to do was shake the tree a little and the garden was full of leaves again, spread out in...
“Do what you’re about. Please.”
– Gary Vaynerchuk
“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.”
– E. E. Cummings & the New York Times
“If you want to own your life, you have to own your money. That means earning a...”
– Jean Chatzky
“Without action, without decision, you remain in possibility, which is safe and...”
– Jennifer Louden
“Small houses, because people have to make each room serve more than one...”
– Sarah Susanka, architect and author of The Not So Big House and Not So Big Remodeling, on “What’s Cozy Now?”
“I don’t know anything that could replace books. I’m with them all...”
– Toby Cox, owner of the Three Lives & Company Bookstore
“How we spend our days is how we spend our lives.”
– Annie Dillard
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“The French, at any rate, living more slowly, have learned the advantage of...”
– Edith Wharton
“Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better...”
– Katherine Hepburn
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“What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do.”
– Sayana Roman, writer
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“In the end, we conserve what we love. We love only what we understand. We will...”
– Senegalese Poet Baba Dioum
“Let go of the need to become. Sure, there will always be things you want to...”
– From How to Create Space When You’re Always in a Rush by Jonathan Mead
