Here’s your choice: You’re dead. Or it’s today. Those are the options. Jerry Seinfeld, in Is This Anything?
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#795 Less focused for a little bit
Focus isn’t just stubbornly saying “I’m going to say no to more things,” it’s studying all the options you have until you can say with conviction, “this is the right one for me.” Paradoxically, this means attaining focus requires us to become less focused for a little bit, exploring our[…]
#794 Never to fly to Vegas
The first step is almost always to sit down and start working, and it’s almost never to fly to Vegas and wait for somebody to offer you a business venture. Sid Meier, in “Sid Meier’s Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games”
#793 Only because of accidental encounters
Many battles took place only because of accidental encounters, and sometimes not even with the enemy. During World War I, for example, the British submarine HMS G9 stumbled upon the British destroyer HMS Pasley, and the two exchanged fire until the G9 split in half and sank, leaving only one[…]
#792 What doesn’t go into the game
These days, the easiest thing in the world to do is more, and if we’re not careful we can end up with three or four games all jammed into one. Deciding what doesn’t go into the game is sometimes more important than deciding what does. Sid Meier, in “Sid Meier’s[…]
#791 If you can do it
“Then do it,” he insisted, his wounded pride already forgotten. “If you can do it, I can sell it.” Sid Meier, in “Sid Meier’s Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games”
#790 Find the fun
“No subject is universally boring; everything contains a core of fascination somewhere, and the primary job of a game designer is not to make something fun, but to find the fun.” Sid Meier, in “Sid Meier’s Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games”
#789 The great joy
“The great joy of web design & typography is that just its presentation can matter a little to all your pages. Writing is hard work, and any new piece of writing will generally add to the pile of existing ones, rather than multiplying it all; it’s an enormous amount of[…]
#788 By painful experience
“An expert is a person who has found out by painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field.“ – Niels Bohr
#787 You dont find yourself in a situation
“You dont find yourself in a situation, you put yourself in a situation” – Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks in #455: Powerful Books, Mystics, Richard Dawkins, and the Dangers of Safe Spaces – The Tim Ferriss Show