January 2012
1 post
“As an adult, you may think you’ve roughly mapped the continent of love and...”
– Jeff Atwood , On Parenthood
December 2011
3 posts
“The simplest way to extend our life, squeezing more experience out of this...”
– Johan Lehrer, In Search of Time
“Maybe ‘I downloaded but didn’t share’ will be the new ‘I...”
– Andy Baio, No Copyright Intended
“When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come...”
– Steve Jobs, via Wikiquote
November 2011
5 posts
“Having a dissenting opinion on movies, music or clothes, or owning clever or...”
– David McRaney, Selling Out
“There’s just a tremendous amount of craftsmanship in between a great idea...”
– Steve Jobs quoted by Philip Elmer-DeWitt, The parable of the stones
“Ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution...”
– Derek Sivers, ideas are just a multiplier of execution
“A tool converts what we can do into what we want to do. A great tool is designed...”
– Bret Victor, A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and...”
– David Foster Wallace, Life and Work
October 2011
6 posts
“Someone feeling wronged is like someone feeling thirsty. Don’t tell them they...”
– Lemony Snicket, Occupy Writers
“Everyone knows newspapers are in horrible trouble. TV news continually loses...”
– Ira Glass, Radiolab: An Appreciation
“I’ve suddenly become acutely sensitive to the opportunity costs of reading any...”
– Sam Harris, The Future of the Book
“There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner...”
– Merlin Mann quoting Steve Jobs, No One Needs Permission to Be Awesome
“One of Jobs’s many gifts was that he knew what to give a shit about. He knew how...”
– John Gruber, Universe Dented, Grass Underfoot
September 2011
7 posts
“I’ve noticed a strong connection between the state of my physical space and my...”
– Jonathan Fields, Clutter can kill creativity and innovation
“Every small step we take toward self reliance is rewarded with heaps of...”
– Kevin Kelly, Cool Tools: Homesteading Alone
“Imagine what would happen if Twitter operated this way: you have no inkling of...”
– Ben Brooks, The Masked Social Network
“Religion was our first attempt at philosophy, just as alchemy was our first...”
– Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
“See, we’ve been successful and the result of that success is that we’re able to...”
– Rands, Fred Hates It
“On July 4 1971, after being inspired by a free printed copy of the U.S....”
– Project Gutenberg, Obituary for Michael Stern Hart
“Compromises enforce simplicity and obviousness in design.”
– John Gruber, Daring Fireball: Compromise
August 2011
8 posts
“The web hates artificial bundles.”
– Jeff Bercovici, Slate Lays Off Staff. Does Its Model Still Make Sense?
“when you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather...”
– @_why (why the lucky stiff), Twitter, 08 August 2008
“True self improvement requires becoming a better version of our selves, not a...”
– Paul Buchheit, I am nothing
“Belief systems address real human needs that are not being met by our society....”
– Carl Sagan, The Burden of Skepticism
“[T]here is a test to determine whether someone is toxic or nourishing in your...”
– Milton Glaser, Ten Things I Have Learned
“They ran a survey! Customers loved the idea! But that’s exactly the...”
– Mark Hurst, Ignore the customer experience, lose a billion dollars
“Rather than riding the texture of a live conversation to figure out how to give...”
– Philip Bump, 4 Ways Technology Can Enable Your Inner Introvert
“People don’t mind buying a magazine because they know there is a hard cost...”
– Shawn Blanc, Reading on the iPad
July 2011
4 posts
“[A]s individuals and companies, everything that we say and do is a symbol of who...”
– Simon Sinek, If You Don’t Understand People, You Don’t Understand Business
“I found that the best way to do interesting intellectual stuff is to have a...”
– Dr. Stephen Wolfram, Brain scan: Alpha geek
“‘Death by PowerPoint’ is a criticism of slide-based presentations...”
– Best of Wikipedia
“Cutting funding for bike lanes because there isn’t enough demand is like...”
– Dave Meslin, Torontoist
June 2011
4 posts
“Building a business is scary. Starting a family while building a business is...”
– Garrett Dimon, My Biggest Mistake
“When a quotidian non-event like walking out the front door can become something...”
– Khoi Vinh, What It’s Like As a Dad
“That a personalized, centralized repository for updates from dynamic streams of...”
– Marshall Kirkpatrick, Glassboard: Rock Star Team Regroups From RSS-Land to Tackle Private Mobile Content Sharing
“There should be absolutely no consideration of a person’s location on the planet...”
– Rands, “The Pond”
May 2011
1 post
“It is difficult to get into a rhythm in your work when you have no real...”
– Ben Pieratt, My Job Pt.1 — I have no idea what I’m doing
March 2011
4 posts
“One could argue that consumers aren’t paying for the content, they’re paying for...”
– Jean-Louis Gassée, The NY Times: Un-Free At Last!
“Any designer (or writer or other craftsperson) has these moments, where you know...”
– Andrew Hinton, Courageous Redirection
“It would be like trying to compare a race car to a deeply satisfying book. In a...”
– Joshua Topolsky, It’s Apple’s ‘post-PC’ world — we’re all just living in it.
“Usage is like oxygen for ideas.”
– Matt Mullenweg, 1.0 Is the Loneliest Number
February 2011
1 post
“A miracle, in the Catholic notion, is not just any old unlikely and happy event....”
– Roger Ebert, What do you mean by a miracle?
January 2011
2 posts
“When authorities can’t get what they want by working within the law, the right...”
– Clay Shirky, Wikileaks and the Long Haul
“We think the technologies visible to consumers will be increasingly...”
– Reid Hoffman and James Slavet, Why We Invested In Groupon: The Power of Data
December 2010
1 post
“Our grandchildren will find it hilarious that people, when they wanted to watch...”
– David Pogue, Lessons Learned in 10 Years on the Tech Beat
November 2010
2 posts
“In other eras, distractibility wasn’t considered shameful.”
– Virginia Heffernan, The Attention-Span Myth
“So what marks a successful publisher in this, the post-publishing world?...”
– Mandy Brown, The company of others
October 2010
6 posts
“No one crumples a blank sheet of paper.”
– Frank Chimero, How to Have an Idea