February 2012
13 posts
“In encountering this discouraging reality, Chandler was no different from the...”
– Scott Rosenberg, Dreaming In Code
Don’t spend too much time considering what you’ve shown yourself to be. Spend equal or greater energy envisioning who you choose to be.
“Work is difficulty and drama, a high-stakes game in which our identity, our...”
– David Whyte, Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity
This quote is the opener to today’s Management Team guest post on AVC.
Read it. Now.
Not All Problems are Worth Solving →
garychou:
speckledwords:
“Not all problems are worth solving.”—Jon Kolko
“Not all jobs are worth doing.”—Gary Chou
I believe these two statements to be absolutely true. To give them more context, Jon Kolko was talking about the efforts designers put towards their work. For example, some designers might spend an enormous…
Our time is precious.
24 Hours at Kickstarter →
Emotional. Big implications for culture and community in the modern world.
Teammates →
bobulate:
Somewhere among E.B. White and Adam Gopnik there is Cord Jefferson:
I’ve never felt more important than when I lived in New York. I was poor and my work was neither very good nor very well-read, and yet every day I’d wake up in my 10 by 10 room, its window looking out over my building’s rusted trashcans, and somehow think I’d achieved another great victory. …. Eventually my fellow New...
“I make sure to start every day as a producer, not a consumer.
When you get up,...”
– aceex comments on What are the small lifestyle changes you’ve made that have had big impacts for you? (via gsiener)
I agree with this for so many reasons.
Morgan Page, Sultan + Ned Shepard & BT Feat....
