December 2011
11 posts
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“The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the sea.”
– Isak Dinesen
This is absolutely my new favorite quote.
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You Can't Fail...
You can’t fail if you don’t define success. It’s an easy way to coast through work, your day, or your life. Just get through it, head down and take things as they come.
However, if you do that you can never make progress. You’ll never be able to reach the next level because you’ll never know what the next level is.
Setting long term goals are great, but...
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“The world I love,
The tears I drop,
To be part of
The wave can’t stop....”
– Can’t Stop - RHCP
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Working Since...
I’ve been working since 7:30am. It is now 9:30pm, and I have just decide to turn my computer off. Not even a few seconds went by, and I immediately picked up my iPad to check my mail. I’m happy I have the drive, and the work ethic to get to me the places I want to go. However, I’m a little disappointed that I can’t truly turn it off when I want to. I’d like to...
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Coding Land
I’ve been learning various coding languages over the past few months. I’m not the technical part of my team, consequently I don’t spend long hours every day head down in code.
It’s become obvious to me that learning a coding language is exactly the same as learning a second langage in school. I learned spanish at the University of Virginia. Class definitely helps, and...
“We played the spot once, and when it finished, Jobs said, “It sucks! I hate it!...”
– Behind the Scenes of Apple’s ‘Think Different’ Campaign (via implodr)
The biggest thing that bothers me about the “Cult of Jobs” is that people often seem to mistake the unfortunate, frequently counterproductive, side effects of the personality that made him great for the very cause of his...
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If
IF you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and...
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