February 2012
1 post
I can haz internet!
January 2012
4 posts
Shift in Perspective: “I want my creative achievements to be an ideal expression of my creative self.” to “I want my ideal self to be an expression of my creative achievements”.
Solution Orientation: http://ping.fm/uTl7f
The logical fallacies of the OWS movement. http://ping.fm/DOGIJ -via @BenSima
Once again, it’s the first year of the rest of my life.
December 2011
14 posts
“At one extreme of its meaning, “myth” is fable, falsehood, or superstition. But at another, “myth” is a useful and fruitful image by which we make sense of life.”
“To him who has, more shall be given. To him that has not, even what he has shall be taken from him.”
Buzzwords: “The acquisition of ING Direct is a game-changing transaction that delivers attractive deal economics immediately and compelling long-term strategic value. The combination of Capital One and ING Direct creates a unique and valuable banking franchise that includes advantaged access to assets, great local scale branch banking in attractive markets, and with ING Direct, the leading...
Differentiation is not separation. The head and the feet are different, but not separate, and though man is not connected to the universe by exactly the same physical relation as branch to tree or feet to head, he is nonetheless connected—and by physical relations of fascinating complexity.”
“Intention is the first choice, action is the FIRST RESULT of intention. That’s why if you focus on being you’ll make the right actions in the long run.”
“Knowledge, even knowledge that overcomes ignorance, is not enough. It won’t fulfill our desires our solve our problems.”
“I’m not ashamed to say that I won’t be voting for Rick Perry, but you don’t have to tune in to CNN every evening to know that there’s something wrong in this country when politicians can openly spew homophobic, unconstitutional rhetoric and still garner support. As citizens, let’s end Perry’s war on reason and tolerance, and fight against radical...
“The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach.”
“If the first requirement of an adult is that he should take to himself responsibility for his failures, for his life, and for his doing, within the context of the actual conditions of the world in which he dwells, then it is simply an elementary psychological fact that no one will ever develop to this state who is continually thinking of what a great thing he would have been had only the...
“lies are what the world lives on, and those who can face the challenge of a truth and build their lives to accord are finally not many, but the very few.”
“You see, we think words are free, that anyone and everyone can use them however they see fit. But in fact, words are property, and they have owners just like a house, or a car, or tv.
If you don’t believe me, think about the word Rich, when you think about the word rich, who comes to mind? That’s right, Bill Gates. What about Ponzi? That’s Bernie Madhoff. Barack Obama...
“To do harm is to do yourself harm. To do an injustice is to do yourself an injustice—it degrades you.”
“…make him believe that there is a road to safety, and thus prevent his fighting with the courage of despair.”
”…to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.”
November 2011
24 posts
“A man who has risked his life knows that careers are worthless, and a man who will not risk his career has a worthless life.”
“Logic can only get you so far. You can have a perfectly valid argument but still be wrong if your premises are false.”
A funny thing happened on the way to the airport… http://ping.fm/plwTj
“There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.”
”For me, that’s basically creativity in a nutshell. A perpetual clawing for the surface. You never get there because doing so would mean stillness, perfection, and we don’t want that, we want constant improvement.” - Ben Sima
The basics of self defense: http://ping.fm/yvcYu
“The Ideas aren’t the hard bit. They’re a small component of the whole. Creating believable people who do more or less what you tell them to is much harder. And hardest by far is the process of simply sitting down and putting one word after another to construct whatever it is you’re trying to build: making it interesting, making it new.”
“EACH PERSON WHOEVER WAS OR IS OR WILL BE HAS A SONG. It isn’t a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their own song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our voices, or that our words are too foolish or too honest, or too odd. So people live their songs instead.”
“I earned it; it was paid to me; it was rightfully my own; yet, upon each returning Saturday night, I was compelled to deliver every cent of that money to Master Hugh. And why? Not because he earned it,—not because he had any hand in earning it,—not because I owed it to him,—nor because he possessed the slightest shadow of a right to it; but solely because he had the power to compel me to...
Badass: http://ping.fm/5YCgO
One second too late to capture the historic moment… photoshop anyone? http://ping.fm/PTy5d
“Think without thinking, so that you act as if out of instinct and not reason.”
Watch me get my ass kicked by one of the most advanced exercise machines in the world. http://ping.fm/6Bfto
“All you need is a spark, and the right soul will light it’s own fire.”
“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.”
-Frederick Douglass
“Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice!”
“Kindness is invincible, provided it’s sincere—not ironic or an act. What can even the most vicious person do if you keep treating him with kindness and gently set him straight—if you get the chance—correcting him cheerfully at the exact moment that he’s trying to do you harm. “
“Everything that happens is either endurable or not. If it’s endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining. If it’s unendurable … then stop complaining. Your destruction will mean its end as well.”
“How much more damage anger and grief do than the things that cause them.”
First weekly meeting for ParkIt.me. Excited for the next steps.
http://ping.fm/mzgNb - Amazing spoken word, thanks Charlie Rose.
“It isn’t through shaming the 1% into sharing their wealth; it’s by out-competing them for that wealth.”
Compromise: Selling your soul to get what you want. Which ironically, you only wanted because of your soul in the first place.
Interesting critique on much of the Paleo diet culture. Ends up unwittingly being an argument against paleo re-enactment. http://ping.fm/dDOnb
October 2011
24 posts
“We think that the things we make can solve our problems, but of course, our problems are more complex than that.” - True, but ironic coming from the author of such books as Blink, Outliers, and The Tipping Point.
My new phone has a “fake call” feature where, it will ring with the caller id features I set and play a prerecorded message when I answer.
Will dropouts save america? http://ping.fm/niOYj
Things I did today: eat breakfast, wireframe website, get hired, read Moore.
Things I did today: Brush teeth, wireframe website, drink beer, hear music, go out.
Things I did today: got fingerprinted, sent mail, watched lecture, grocery shopping, ate spinach, walked alot, surfed internet, read bourne.
There’s two types of entrepreneurs: The one’s who build in order to make money, and the ones who make money in order to build.