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A true player
A true player indeed. Screenshot from 13 Assassins. View post: A true player
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A story you believe in
We will do our best work when we can ply our trade along the arc of a story we believe in. If you can work your craft towards a “greater cause” your work will be greater. I’ve been digging and...
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How to mindfulness meditation
Here’s my guide to getting started with the mindfullness meditation stuff. These aren’t precepts handed down on stone tablets; just some roadblocks I’ve had to navigate. 1. Don’t tell anyone about it...
View ArticleGuy Hock on the four beasts that devour
Through the years, I have greatly feared and sought to keep at bay the four beasts that inevitably devour their keeper — Ego, Envy, Avarice, and Ambition.” Dee Hock (guy who created Visa) View post:...
View ArticleThe self-made man’s self-worth problem
But the manhood of the Self-Made Man was ever in doubt, tied as it was to external factors and the whims of financial success. Just as the value of a company’s stock fluctuated from day to day, so...
View ArticleSeth Godin on why he blogs
I do this because it is a privilege.” Seth Godin View post: Seth Godin on why he blogs
View ArticleThe Most Shamefully Named Path to Success
I recently finished a project. I worked hard on it. I’m proud of myself and my team. But the most important thing about it was surprising.... more →View post: The Most Shamefully Named Path to Success
View ArticleHemingway on being alive
Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like...
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Obama’s proud face. Special moment, no matter where you land.
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View ArticleSettling for average
Except, of course, there is. Somehow, what troubles people isn’t so much being average as settling for it. Everyone knows that averageness is, for most of us, our fate. And in certain matters—looks,...
View ArticleThe Medium Chill
There will always be a More and Better just beyond our reach, no matter how high we climb. We could always have a little more money and a few more choices. But as we see it, we don’t need to work...
View ArticleDavid Levithan on what matters and what’s hard
Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.” David Levithan View post: David...
View ArticleTimeless Advice from Frank Chimero
Our sense of time is all out of whack. When people link to older blog posts and articles, they’ll maybe call it ‘timeless’ or say some other inane thing like, ‘Old, but good!’ Two years old isn’t old!...
View ArticleHow vs. Why
A complex world has made us over-emphasize How-based thinking and education. Once the tools are understood, grasping why to do certain things becomes more valuable than how to do them. How is recipes,...
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Henry Rollins on The Iron
The Iron never lies to you. You can walk outside and listen to all kinds of talk, get told that you’re a god or a total bastard. The Iron will always kick you the real deal. The Iron is the great...
View ArticleCarl Sagan’s Second Wife on the Finality of Death
…we lived with a vivid appreciation of how brief & precious life is.” Carl Sagan’s Second Wife View post: Carl Sagan’s Second Wife on the Finality of Death
View ArticleSteinbeck on love
And don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens—The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.” John Steinbeck View post: Steinbeck on love
View ArticleThe Function of the Majority of Your Art
The function of the overwhelming majority of your artwork is simply to teach you how to make the small fraction of your artwork that soars.” Art & Fear This is from a book about making art. I don’t...
View ArticleDon Miller on “Changing the Rules”
I know you read a Seth Godin book convincing you you could be a billionaire by creating a tribe. And you read a Timothy Ferris book convincing you you could work four hours a week and be rich. Guess...
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