Citing @timoreilly’s adage “create more value than you capture” a bunch today. Chatting about coding, education, makers, the UK, catalysts.
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What’s most interesting to me about the future of technology? Reimagining every human behavior and every human experience through the lens of a mobile device
there’s a natural dissonance that occurs when the things that matter more are at the mercy of things that matter less.
Berger is full of startling insights: “The past is not for living in; it is a well of conclusions from which we draw in order to act.”
WHAT IS MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN NIGHT AND SOMEONE IN YOUR ARMS THAT’S WHAT WE LOVE ABOUT ART IT SEEMS TO PREFER US AND STAYS
– FRANK O’HARA, “TO YOU”
Don’t bother accepting new input if you have no interest in using it. (I happen to think that once you’re committed to your path, this is in fact a brilliant approach. Halfway up Everest, it makes no sense to have a discussion about climbing K2 instead.)
What you read quickly you forget. What you read slowly you remember. What eludes your reading becomes a part of you by other means.
“No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.”