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When you’re new to something, all the pain is out in the open. You stub your toes until they’re black and blue on things the veterans have all learned to avoid.
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This is the time to do the impossible, because you don’t know enough to know what can’t be done yet.Posted on May 28, 2012 with 2 notes
Source: 37signals.com
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New ideas often exaggerate to make a point.
Source: zeldman.com
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Writing is the connective tissue that creates understanding. We, as social creatures, often better perform rituals to form understanding one on one, but good writing enables us to understand each other at scale.
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It makes me think that the thoughts that I have in my head that make me feel the most lonely, because I don’t feel that anyone else thinks them, are also the thoughts that have the most potential to make me feel connected. - zefrank
Source: youtube.com
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Ultimately, any market that doesn’t have a leader in simplicity soon will. And if your company doesn’t play that role, another will lead the charge.
- Aaron Levie
(via Todd Chandler)
Posted on May 24, 2012 via Observation Paper with 7 notes
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There’s work and there’s you life’s work. - Apple
Posted on May 23, 2012 with 2 notes
Source: thenextweb.com
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I would much rather go to my grave knowing I tried and failed at the think I love to do thank to know that I suffered and succeeded at the thing I hated
- Patrick Rhone on The Enough Podcast
(via Aaron Curtis)
Posted on May 22, 2012 via Minimal Mac with 136 notes
Source: minimalmac
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If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
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You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.
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I didn’t stop pretending when I became an adult, it’s just that when I was a kid I was pretending that I fit into the rules and structures of this world. And now that I’m an adult, I pretend that those rules and structures exist. - zefrank
Source: youtube.com
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