May 2012
2 posts
“Let me make this perfectly clear. You are exactly what you practice. You are...”
– http://leongersing.tumblr.com/post/23467076762/permission-granted
“Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m...”
– Steve Jobs, 2005 Stanford Commencement Speech
March 2012
2 posts
“Each one of us gets one lifetime: no more, no less. It can be spent in a...”
– http://www.deliberatism.com/blog/what-deliberatism-is/
January 2012
1 post
“Designers are, by definition, problem-solvers. And the world has never been so...”
– Mike Monteiro - http://www.netmagazine.com/features/10-new-year-s-resolutions-designers
December 2011
2 posts
“You can’t improve a design when you’re emotionally attached to...”
– Ryan Singer - http://twitter.com/#!/rjs/status/636760371503104
“if you understand that your client’s lousy design suggestion is really the...”
– Angel David Lindes - http://northtemple.com/2011/10/14/find-the-twin-sumo-or-n
November 2011
2 posts
“It seems to me that people often confuse caring with being difficult. A number...”
– Eric Karjaluoto - http://www.ideasonideas.com/2011/09/difficult-people/
“No, we don’t take clients like that.
No, that’s not part of what...”
– http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/11/no.html
August 2011
3 posts
“Designers: never, ever be a pair of hands. If a client says ‘just do it...”
– http://twitter.com/#!/markboulton/status/103792001975193600
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
– http://www.thecoolhunter.net/article/detail/1919/if-its-important-youll-find-a-way.-if-it-isnt-youll-find-an-excuse
July 2011
3 posts
“It’s so repellent to me, this constant mantra about how some people have this...”
– by Merlin Mann, via http://helloform.com/blog/2011/07/that-special-thing-in-people/
“If you really want outstanding creative performance, you need people to focus on...”
– http://the99percent.com/tips/7053/Why-You-Cant-Buy-Creativity
“You cannot become the person or agency you wish to be by doing the type of work...”
– http://twitter.com/#!/leeclowsbeard
May 2011
1 post
“But in general, the search for popular is wildly overrated, because it corrupts...”
– Seth Godin – http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/05/whats-the-point-of-popular.html
April 2011
4 posts
“Putting someone in a favourable position based on their gender or ethnicity is...”
– http://farukat.es/journal/2011/04/576-translation-general-misogyny-uncomfortable-truth
“The point I’m trying to make is that there’s a lot of opportunity for us—as...”
– Eric Karjaluoto - http://www.ideasonideas.com/2011/04/put-down-your-crayons/
“If I could stop favoring short term gratification over long term happiness, I...”
– Meagan Fisher - http://owltastic.com/2011/04/root-canal/
“Q:
“Is it wrong to fire an (unvested) co-founder who becomes pregnant at...”
– Aen Tan on Qora - http://www.quora.com/Is-it-wrong-to-fire-an-unvested-co-founder-who-becomes-pregnant-at-a-startup/answer/Aen-Tan?srid=zX
March 2011
1 post
“There’s this ideal I have in my head, to remain fiercely independent for as long...”
– Naz Hamid - http://methodandcraft.com/interviews/naz-hamid
January 2011
3 posts
“It’s a lot easier for an organization to adopt new words than it is to...”
– Seth Godin - http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/01/the-pleasant-reassurance-of-new-words.htm
“Add things until it starts sucking, take things away until it stops getting...”
– Frank Chimero - http://blog.frankchimero.com/post/2831408736/your-shit-my-stuff-goldilocks-and-making-the-bed-you
“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and...”
– Lawrence Pearsall Jacks
December 2010
2 posts
“Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation”
– By Alasdair Gray (via Jez Brurrows in 8faces magazine)
“Ideas don’t materialise in a vacuum. Without constant input, the outputs will...”
– http://24ways.org/2010/good-ideas-grow-on-paper
September 2010
2 posts
“Good sense is the most fairly distributed commodity in the world, because nobody...”
– René Descartes. (via dailymeh)
“The corporate conscience
There isn’t one.
Corporations don’t...”
– http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/08/the-corporate-conscience.html
August 2010
1 post
“The first symptom of the process of our killing our dreams is the lack of time....”
– http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2010/07/31/3-min-reading-killing-your-dreams/
July 2010
6 posts
“When you are 80 years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for...”
– http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S27/52/51O99/index.xml
“When compromise brings what passes for success, compromise becomes...”
– http://www.andyrutledge.com/platos-cave.php
“We don’t give answers. Unless we can explore your question.”
– From the Eden Spiekermann manifesto. Very inspiring! http://edenspiekermann.com/en/about/manifesto/
“Are you doing work worth doing, or are you just doing your job?”
– http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/07/whats-the-point.html
“Most successful people begin with two beliefs: the future can be better than the...”
– David Brooks in an op-ed piece riffing against the premise of Outliers and talking about why control of attention is the ultimate individual power. Lost in the Crowd - NYTimes.com (via jackcheng)
“Why schedule work-outs for the body, but neglect everything above the neck?...”
– Amy King on reading - http://laughingyeti.blogspot.com/2010/06/amy-king-on-reading.html
June 2010
2 posts
“Simple five step plan for just about everyone and everything
1. Go, make...”
– http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/05/simple-five-step-plan-for-just-about-everyone-and-everything.html
May 2010
1 post
“The last ten percent is the signal we look for, the way we communicate care and...”
– http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/05/hardly-worth-the-effort.html
February 2010
1 post
“Waiting for inspiration is another way of saying that you’re stalling. You...”
– http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/01/random-rules-for-ideas-worth-spreading.html
January 2010
2 posts
“An eclectic is a philosopher who tramples underfoot prejudice, tradition,...”
– Denis Diderot (via jackcheng)
“If you’re a willing cog in the vast machinery of work, it’s entirely...”
– http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/01/the-victim.html
December 2009
1 post
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone”
– Pablo Picasso
November 2009
1 post
“Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look...”
– Samuel Butler
October 2009
3 posts
“If an interaction is fun, design it with more friction. If it’s boring, design...”
– Joey Roth (via jackcheng)
“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless...”
– AYN RAND (via http://blog.dustincurtis.com/)
“Never doubt a small group of thoughtful, commited citizens can change the world....”
– Margaret Mead
September 2009
10 posts
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not;...”
– http://goodexperience.com/2009/09/a-lesson-in-strategy.php
“You don’t design the page, you design the content. Without the content, you’re...”
– http://unitinteractive.com/blog/2009/09/23/designing-vs-making-stuff-up/
“Dear Old People Who Run the World, My generation would like to break up with...”
– Do read, you won’t regret.
http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/haque/2009/07/today_in_capitalism_20_1.html
“All the tips and tricks in the world won’t matter if your idea sucks.”
– http://twitter.com/AdamSinger/status/4131186743