I like having a service I can pay for, because when you buy something, you’re the customer, not the product.
a problem well put is half solved
You will never find time for anything. If you want the time, you must make it.
Write every day. When you write every day, it becomes a habit and you do it automatically. Habits are things you get for free.
Cory Docktorow (in Lifehacker)
One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire Cat in a tree. ‘Which route do I take?’ she asked. His response was a question: ‘Where do you want to get to?’ ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the Cheshire Cat, ‘it doesn’t much matter.’
Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland
The farther you aim, the more an initial error matters.
Etienne Wenger (Communities of practice, p.9.)
The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
Socrates
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
There is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, & smarter than you think.
(Winnie the Pooh)
(Winnie the Pooh)
A. A. Milne (via @jessparkerr)
Alain De Botton on thinking
