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The ever-amazing and excruciatingly self-deprecating Chris Ware, in an interview on NPR’s Here and Now (2005)
Notes to Self
“ I don’t like whitespace… I don’t know why. I don’t want anybody to feel like they’re being ripped off or like I’m taking advantage of them. ”
“ The algorithms and tag searches and bookmarklets will only get you so far; afterwards, it’s work only you can do, work the machine has no need for. ”
“ By inverting this list, we can get a portrait of the “normal” world. It’s populated by people who talk a lot with one another as they work slowly but harmoniously on conservative, expensive projects whose destinations are decided in advance, and who carefully adjust their manner to reflect their position in the hierarchy. ”
Paul Graham in What Kate Saw in Silicon Valley
“ Be human. Stop hiding. Be yourself. ”
Must read. I want to heart/star/reblog/upvote the crap out of this: You’re a little company, now act like one
“ Life is a series of “if-then” clauses where you can now issue “print” statements like this for debugging purposes. ”
“ Life is so ridiculously gorgeous, strange, heartbreaking, horrific, etc., that we are compelled to describe it to ourselves, but we can’t! We cannot do it! And so we make art. ”
Interview Magazine serves up 20 Questions for Miranda July posed by friends and colleagues like Dave Eggers, Michel Gondry and Spike Jonez, to name a few. (via @sahadeva)
Dr. Ronald Chevalier from Gentleman Broncos on ”The Art of Inspiring Oneself” (via RonaldChevalier)
“ Stress primarily comes from not taking action over something that you can have some control over. ”
Jeff Bezos in an Inteview with the Academy of Achievement. See also: regret minimalization. (thanks @msg)
This video of Jeff Bezos is just one of a bunch of totally awesome things in Tony Hsieh’s Letter to Zappos.com employees regarding “Zappos and Amazon sitting in a tree…”
Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter: It's Time to Manage for Abundance, Not Scarcity
Chris Anderson’s feature article in Wired for his new book Free (unabridged audiobook here) includes this great nugget from Cory Doctorow:
The dandelion doesn’t want to nurse a single precious copy of itself in the hopes that it will leave the nest and carefully navigate its way to the optimum growing environment, there to perpetuate the line. The dandelion just wants to be sure that every single opportunity for reproduction is exploited!
Schulze and Webb are all kinds of awesome (which is the best kind of awesome). Here & There is a horizonless projection of Manhattan that shows both street-level detail and satellite-level scope on the same frickin’ map. Bucky Fuller would be proud.
