Cadence.
The pattern of living and working in the midst of mystery, discovery, beauty, and innovation.
Posts tagged reading
"These are the Nebraska years and the sooner you quit being surprised by the hardship of them, the sooner you can survive. Not just survive, but actually thrive."
John Acuff, Quitter
"We knew that Google was going to get better every single day as we worked on it, and we knew that sooner or later, everyone was going to try it. So our feeling was that the later you tried it, the better it was for us because we’d make a better impression with better technology. So we were never in a big hurry to get you to use it today. Tomorrow would be better."
Sergey Brin, the founder of Google via Seth Godin and John Acuff
Current Reading Pile
When I relaunched this blog in January the goal was highlighting things that stuck out to me. It ended up being a lot quotes. I think there will always be people that engage with what sticks out to me, and others might engage better with the source material. So, to that end, here is what I’m currently reading:
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Quitter, Jon Acuff
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Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action, Simon Sinek
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Earthen Vessels, Matthew Lee Anderson
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Chief Culture Officer: How to Create a Living, Breathing Corporation, Grant McCracken (on the back burner)
"In fact, one of the big lessons of Zappos’s first few years was that it never make sense to outsource your core competency…"
How I Did It, HBR July-August 2010
"Everyone spoke of information overload, but what there was in fact was non-information overload."
Richard Saul Wurman
"The loss demands attention, not denial."
Christopher Alexander, Notes on the Synthesis of Form
"Graphics reveal data. Indeed graphics can be more precise and revealing than conventional statistical computations."
Edward R. Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
