January 2011
29 posts
“The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing...”
– Jessica Hische / Humble Pied. (via papertissue)
“We are aware that we are doing something significant. We’re here at the...”
– Steve Jobs (via davemorin)
“There are cloudy moments when one asks himself if men do not deserve all the...”
– Henri Barbusse (via nathanielstuart)
Dear Tumblr
oatmeal:
If you’re going to go down, you might as well blame it on an imaginary animal like Twitter did with their infamous Fail Whale. I’ve taken the liberty of creating this animal for you:
Please use it.
Please oh please.
-The Oatmeal
“I write because to form a word with your lips and tongue or think a thing and...”
– Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones (via thepanicofbirds)
Daily Meh: “Flow is the mental state of operation... →
dailymeh:
“Flow is the mental state of operation in which a person in an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity.” Films aren’t very good at conveying flow. Just look at computer programmers in movies: no one wants to see a…
Core Peer Groups: How I Found a Co-Founder, Built... →
brianbalfour:
The $5M Keg
In 2007 I was 23 years old, working full time as a product manager at ZoomInfo while moonlighting on a number of entrepreneurial side projects. I had previously started a few companies with angel funding and a couple small exits, but certainly nothing of scale. In a whirlwind of a month, all of that changed based on an inebriated conversation while standing over...
WatchNot feeling the speaking style, but the message is top notch.
“Facebook runs on a very stiff, crude model of what people are like. It herds...”
– Lev Grossman’s profile on Mark Zuckerberg for Time
I think this is the best analysis of Facebook I’ve ever read. “The social equivalent of liver failure” is a genius phrase.
(via buzzandersen)
“Who really cares what people think? Look into your heart and do whatever the...”
– Dr. Kelso, Scrubs (via siftingthroughthemadness)
Black Swan
I’m glad it wasn’t what I’d expected. I understood what others had said to mean it was at heart about deep and disturbing mental illness. It wasn’t. On that score it was actually kind of mild. But at conveying its own message, Black Swan was exceptional.
Now I understand why ballet dancers can see Swan Lake as a mirror of their own experience. In so many ways, this film...
hey amber rae: chase what scares you →
heyamberrae:
it’s easy to live within our comfort zones, getting into the same routine day in and day out. it’s natural to feel afraid for how change might impact our lives, how it might show us something we’re not yet ready to face.
the problem is that we’ll never grow and evolve our perspectives. we’ll get…
