Art of Doing Work

Lyrics I Love

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:14:07 -0700

Gary Clark Jr. From “Bright Lights”

Start up with the bottle

End it up with the bottle

Taking shots, waiting for tomorrow

Trying to fill up, was hollow

"We are happy when we have family, we are happy when we have friends and almost all the other things..."

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 23:44:45 -0700

“We are happy when we have family, we are happy when we have friends and almost all the other things we think make us happy are actually just ways of getting more family and friends.”

- How To Be Happier In Life - AskMen

What to talk about at events

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:19:46 -0700

What to talk about at events

"When most people say “they’re too busy” in reality what they’re giving into is learned..."

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:11:36 -0700

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When most people say “they’re too busy” in reality what they’re giving into is learned helplessness.

At some point, many people realize it’s easier just to lower their expectations and exist, rather than find new creative ways to drive themselves toward who they want to be.

”

- The Scourge of the 20 Something: Complacent friends. | Milk the Pigeon

"Don’t get lazy as an entrepreneur. Do your research, analyze the market, answer the critical..."

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 07:24:32 -0700

“Don’t get lazy as an entrepreneur. Do your research, analyze the market, answer the critical questions I laid out on this post, and then make the decision to enter the market or not.”

- Take this critical step before you build a startup

"Happy workers make better products,” he said. “The output we care about has everything to do with..."

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 18:57:24 -0700

““Happy workers make better products,” he said. “The output we care about has everything to do with your state of mind.””

- in-silicon-valley-perks-now-begin-at-home.html

"But Apple went with the brand building after it had introduced the world to the iPod. People knew..."

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 10:09:34 -0700

“But Apple went with the brand building after it had introduced the world to the iPod. People knew what white headphones meant in 2007. I’m not sure people know what a keyboard case is about in 2012 quite yet.”

- Why Microsoft’s Surface Ad Might be a Miss — 512 Pixels

"Don’t get lost or killed. And remember, you can lead a horse to water but a pencil must be..."

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:19:01 -0700

“Don’t get lost or killed. And remember, you can lead a horse to water but a pencil must be lead.”

- Letters of Note: Drive safely and don’t abuse alcohol, drugs or candy

Some of the best writing on the internet is on Grantland.com

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:40:55 -0700

Some of the best writing on the internet is on Grantland.com:

Maybe the most incredible thing about Baumgartner’s jump was not that he did it successfully but that, for a short while,2 he brought the world back to that old daredevil wonder. Yes, he was sponsored by Red Bull and broadcast live on YouTube, but that’s actually kind of the point: He pushed the limits of human flight so far that he made the whole Internet remember that flight is like magic.

Human behavior is ruled by incentives. You can understand them and work within them, or ignore...

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:09:38 -0700

Human behavior is ruled by incentives.

You can understand them and work within them, or ignore them and face endless frustration.

Scott Berkun on blogging everyday. (via Scott Berkun: Lessons...

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:00:29 -0700

Scott Berkun on blogging everyday.

(via Scott Berkun: Lessons From History and Blogging Every Day | WordPress.tv)

Marco Arment on "Users"

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:30:09 -0700

Marco Arment on "Users":

What about “free” or mostly-free services that are predominantly funded by ads — the most popular, growth-inducing, and profitable business model on the web by far? “Users” are deeply entrenched in our entire industry’s culture. We can’t move past that attitude without moving past that business model, too.

Jack Dorsey is in charge of two companies: Twitter and Square.

Square has customers. Twitter has users.

Blogging a Blog

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:48:34 -0700

Blogging a Blog:

Spot on.

Startup vs. Lifestyle Business

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:17:50 -0700

Startup vs. Lifestyle Business:

In a city full of startups and entrepreneurs, the concept of a lifestyle business isn’t the hippest thing to explain.

"Obama argued that it’s too late to turn the economic tide, and called upon the US to look..."

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 07:15:40 -0700

“Obama argued that it’s too late to turn the economic tide, and called upon the US to look inward at its own industries and infrastructure, rather than point its finger at China. On Tuesday night, the president asked Americans to accept what he sees as a hard reality, and to invest in a drastically different future.”

- Obama and Romney clash over Apple, Made in China | The Verge

How to Deal with Depression

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:35:36 -0700

How to Deal with Depression

Marcel Proust on reading the newspaper

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:52:53 -0700

“Thanks to which all the misfortunes and cataclysms in the universe over the last twenty-four hours, the battles which cost the lives of 50,000 men, the murders, the strikes, the bankruptcies, the fires, the poisonings, the suicides, the divorces, the cruel emotions of statesmen and actors, are transformed for us, who don’t even care, into a morning treat, blended and wonderfully, in a particularly exciting and tonic way, with the recommended ingestion of a few sips of cafe au lait.”

Via “How Proust Can Change Your Life”

How Might Video Games Be Good for Us?

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:01:44 -0700

How Might Video Games Be Good for Us?:

WHY do we study play? WHY? We study play because LIFE is CRAP. Life is crap, and it’s full of pain and suffering, and the ONLY thing that makes it worth living the ONLY thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living is play. Art, and play

"The lesson I’ve learned is that the best practices for a specific job are not always obvious without..."

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 12:50:17 -0700

“The lesson I’ve learned is that the best practices for a specific job are not always obvious without reflection. Furthermore, you can’t trust your instincts to lead your day-to-day decisions toward the best outcomes. Craftsmanship, in other words, requires guidance.”

- Study Hacks » Blog Archive » The Importance of Auditing Your Work Habits

"…new important results almost always require expert-level knowledge of existing important..."

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 12:45:25 -0700

“…new important results almost always require expert-level knowledge of existing important results.”

- Study Hacks » Blog Archive » The Importance of Auditing Your Work Habits