February 2012
16 posts
1 tag
“It isn’t a question of strategy, it’s a question of whether we can...”
– Rishad Tobaccowala at #rewk2012
“Form is simple. We don’t have to think, we only have to repeat what we are...”
– Adizes via @josh_dix
“Any job that can be measured for productivity probably should be eliminated from...”
– Kevin Kelly via @the99percent
“We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves.”
– Alice Bloch via @micahyost
“Finding elements of good does not equal a noble purpose. It’s just...”
– http://blog.startwithwhy.com/refocus/2012/02/purpose-can-not-be-rationalized.html
“Online education can do the “deliver content” job and free teachers...”
– @claychristensen via @rjs
“Forming a career goal based on your passion can be romantic, but it assumes an...”
– @quixotic via @johnmaeda
“People don’t buy what you sell. They buy results of what they can achieve...”
– @splove1
“I admire people who *really* know how to spend their time - and have the guts to...”
– Scott Belsky
“I worry, for example, that in our rush to champion “authenticity,” our...”
– @mikefoster via @lukasnaugle
1 tag
“Design Thinking is a discipline that uses the designer’s sensibility and methods...”
– Tim Brown of IDEO
“What you measure is what gets accomplished.”
– Gordon Bethune via @josh_dix
3 tags
Delegate More (Without Hiring)
It happens to the best of us. You go into work early planning on being super productive (at least before everyone else arrives) and then noon arrives. Taking stock of the morning, you realize you that some combination of clicks (in your email) and comments (to coworkers) absorbed your entire morning with no direct result. It stands to reason that your morning could have been used more effectively,...
“A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.”
– Max Lucado via @the99percent
January 2012
15 posts
“Leadership in innovation is not the courage to spend but the courage to focus.”
– @asymco via @rjs
“An organizations ability to learn, and translate that learning into action...”
– Jack Welch via @micahyost
“…we are always so camera ready…”
– T.D. Jakes #elephantroom
“…he will steal your joy because he can’t take [the ministry] from...”
– Wayne Cordeiro #elephantroom
“I tended to bear the weight of other people’s failed performance…”
– Jame McDonald #elephantroom
“I thought my capability was greater than my calling. I was wrong.”
– Wayne Cordeiro #elephantroom
“In the field of observation, chance favours only the prepared mind.”
– Louis Pasteur
Designer Founders book project →
Cool Kick Starter book project about designer founded companies.
“Whenever we propose a solution to a problem, we ought to try as hard as we can...”
– Popper via @rjs
“Innovation is the application of ideas. If we want innovation we have to be open...”
– Simon Sinek
“Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you...”
– Mark Twain via @toddhenry
“Creativity is just connecting things.Ask creative people how they did it, they...”
– Steve Jobs via @jessebryan
“Until you quiet the resistance and commit to actually shipping things that...”
– http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/12/the-reason-productivity-improvements-dont-work.html
“Successful projects are born out of depth.”
– http://calnewport.com/blog/2011/12/08/abandon-your-big-idea-but-dont-give-up-your-big-ambition/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+StudyHacks+%28Study+Hacks%29
December 2011
18 posts
“In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of...”
– Czesław Miłosz via @iancron
“The difference between wishes and goals is the degree of granularity with which...”
– Todd Henry
“How would you do the meeting differently if the building were burning down?...”
– Seth Godin
“A revolution starts with a clear vision of a world different than the one we...”
– Simon Sinek
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Tools vs insight →
Perhaps we need to spend less time learning new tools and more time using them.
“Adding options to people’s lives increases the expectations they have...”
– Barry Schwarts, On the Paradox of Choice
“Opportunity costs subtract from the satisfaction we get from what we choose even...”
– Barry Schwartz, On the Paradox of Choice
Facebook Is Making Us Miserable →
“…it became clear that behind all the liking, commenting, sharing, and posting, there were strong hints of jealousy, anxiety, and, in one case, depression.”
“We have grown up with this notion that what we want to do is what were asked to...”
– Seth Godin
Ideas, Structure, and Execution →
Great thoughts from my bro, Micah, about how structure makes ideas possible.
Tony Schwartz on Energy →
“When we try to mimic the digital devices in our lives, they end up running us.”
“Innovation thrives from an apostolic vision of the church that encompasses holy...”
– @alanhirsch
2 tags
Steady Stand, a Copy-Stand and Diffuser Box in One →
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Sometimes, the simplest ideas are the best. And so it is with the Modahaus Steady Stand 200, a kind of combination light-box and camera support for shooting top-down pictures of… anything.
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November 2011
3 posts
2 tags
