February 2012
it will feel lonely, perhaps, to go where others are not and you might look around and wonder if you are on the right path. but every innovator / change agent / kick-ass person who delivered value is also a person who marked their own way…
facing into this reality is ridiculously hard. most of us don’t have to ever get really clear on anything. fuzzy is enough most of the time. but...
from gretchenjonesnyc. love. | via ofakind
“the best feature is that it works” explains systrom. “you compare our history to other social media startups and it’s been very good. we’ve been very careful about scaling.”
and to that end the team has spent much of the last year planning for growth. because they don’t want to revamp the system while its under load, that’s meant doing things like...
luck, it must be said, is a loaded word. sometimes someone’s luck is nothing of their own doing, a result of the privilege of their birth. sometimes we mean luck in the purest way, the happenstance of sitting next to the right person on a bus. (this sort of luck seems practically mythical; one wonders if it ever happens.) but for many people, “luck” is something of their own...
i want to maintain inexperience. giving my next dance a new set of specs is one sure way to do that. moving from modern dance to ballet is another. switching gears from concert halls to broadway is yet another. norman mailer calls this “rotating your crops.” each new challenge is a way to protect your inexperience, make you remember something you never had a chance to forget. when...
it probably goes without saying - wow, stunning sunsets by ann woo | via visualarmory
a young man wrote to mozart and said, “herr mozart, i am thinking of writing symphonies. can you give me any suggestions as to how to get started?” mozart responded, “a symphony is a very complex musical form, perhaps you should begin with some simple lieder and work your way up to a symphony.” “but herr mozart, you were writing symphonies when you were 8 years old.” “but i never asked anybody...
as an adolescent, i discovered the beauty of pens. of commitment. of what it meant to think several moves ahead. to accept the consequences of my errors. the transition wasn’t an easy one. initially, when i first switched to ink, i burned through reams of loose-leaf; my perfectionist tendencies wouldn’t allow me to submit papers or send letters with any visible errors. and for a short while, i...
if someone doesn’t seem to want to get to know me as a person but instead seems to have kind of bought into the whole idea of me and he approves of my wikipedia page? and falls in love based on zero hours spent with me? that’s maybe something to be aware of. that will fade fast. you can’t be in love with a google search.
- taylor swift: the single life | via vogue
question: favorite can’t live without jeans? preferably ankle length to wear with flats. thanks!
arc of time [time code] | bright eyes
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komen apologizes for ‘recent decisions,’
pledges to continue funding planned parenthood
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we want to apologize to the american public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women’s lives.
the events of this week have been deeply unsettling for our supporters, partners and friends and all of us at susan g. komen. we have been...
repeating easy tasks again and again gets you not very far. attacking only steep cliffs where no progress is made isn’t particularly effective either. no, the best path is an endless series of difficult (but achievable) hills.
the craft of your career comes in picking the right hills. hills just challenging enough that you can barely make it over. a series of hills becomes a mountain, and a...
in order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it, they must not do too much of it, and they must have a sense of success in it.
- john ruskin (1819 - 1900) | thanks to erehwyna