Insight

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. - James Madison


It is impressive how insightful Madison and Jefferson were.

Connecting Dots

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. - Steve Jobs 


Put trust in your passion.

Lack of Dots

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have. - Steve Jobs


Be sure you learn something every day; on all sorts of subjects.

Nothing to Say

If a thing goes without saying -- let it. - Jacob Braude


If only the world could be such a nice quiet place.......

Your Works Speech

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. - Henry J. Kaiser

When someone talks nonstop about how great their work is, start looking for its flaws.

Quackable

Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath - Jacob Braude


Quack, quack.

Leave Wiggle Room

Life is not a struggle, it's a wiggle. - Peter McWilliams


Unless your opponent is yourself.

Big Ding

I want to put a ding in the universe. - Steve Jobs

He has.

Be Stubborn

Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power." - Peter McWilliams


Shift.

Avoiding the Inevitable

No matter what you work on, you're not working on everything else. So the question is not how to avoid procrastination, but how to procrastinate well. There are three variants of procrastination, depending on what you do instead of working on something: you could work on (a) nothing, (b) something less important, or (c) something more important. That last type, I'd argue, is good procrastination. - Paul Graham


Don't delude yourself into not doing what has to be done.