"Another strategy is to ignore the fact that you are slowly killing yourself by not sleeping and exercising enough. That frees up several hours a day. The only downside is that you get fat and die."
Scott Adams on Time Management
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"The frightening and most difficult thing about being what someone calls a ‘creative person’ is that you have absolutely no idea where any of your thoughts come from, and you have no idea where they’re going to come from tomorrow."
‘Art and Copy’ documentary via Sarah B Nelson (UX Week 2011)
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"Leaders are not what many people think–people with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see whether anyone is following them. “Leadership qualities” are not the qualities that enable people to attract followers, but those that enable them to do without them. They include, at the very least, courage, endurance, patience, humor, flexibility, resourcefulness, determination, a keen sense of reality, and the ability to keep a cool and clear head even when things are going badly. This is the opposite of the “charisma” that we hear so much about."
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"In headaches and in worry / Vaguely life leaks away."
WH Auden
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"Reasoning was not designed to pursue the truth. Reasoning was designed by evolution to help us win arguments. That’s why they call it The Argumentative Theory of Reasoning. So, as they put it, “The evidence reviewed here shows not only that reasoning falls quite short of reliably delivering rational beliefs and rational decisions. It may even be, in a variety of cases, detrimental to rationality. Reasoning can lead to poor outcomes, not because humans are bad at it, but because they systematically strive for arguments that justify their beliefs or their actions. This explains the confirmation bias, motivated reasoning, and reason-based choice, among other things."
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"The good news is that listening is a beautiful experience. The bad news is that it can be a heavy burden. […] Listening is never easy. It involves overcoming the natural tendency to roadblock. It requires a certain maturity, a certain self-transcendence, an openness to understand values and points of view very different from our own. When we really listen, our own ideas and values are sometimes altered."
Robert Bolton
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"If you aim at nothing, you will probably hit it"
unknown
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"Hire well, manage little."
unkown source, common wisdom, therefore, uncommon (but also picked up from BH annual shareholder letter)
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"Know some non-computer field of study well — math, biology, history, optics, whatever. Learn to communicate effectively in speech and in writing. Spend an unreasonable amount of time on some difficult topic to really master it. Try to do something that might make a difference in the world."
Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++(Source: Wired)
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