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Stuff I'm reading, looking at, listening to, quotes and other scraps.

01 July 2014

Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.

– Hunter S Thompson

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30 June 2014

“Narration is creation of truth, which is to say that truth does not precede it.”

– Aleksandar Hemon

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27 June 2014

The very best form of self-promotion is celebration. To celebrate is to share the joy of what you do (and critically also celebrate what others do) and invite folks to participate in the party. […] Celebrants don’t reserve their bandwidth for themselves. They don’t treat their friends like a tricky audience who may throw pennies at you at the end of the performance. They treat them like friends. It’s a pretty simple way of measuring whether what you publish is good: would I do/say/act the same way with my friends? Human scales are always the best scales.

Jon Tan

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25 June 2014

“Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished.”

@DanTGilbert

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24 June 2014

Technology is the transportation layer of culture - understand that technology is the highway and the culture is the car and you will win

– Twitter / NaithanJones

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23 June 2014

Anything worth rising towards will always be hidden by the wearisome crossfire of those who aim too low.

– Twitter / georgelazenby

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20 June 2014

“Technology deployed without infrastructure, without understanding, without (support) is nearly worthless.” 

Dan Hill

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20 June 2014

Spoiler alert! You finish college. Office job. Marriage, 2 kids. Own company by 38. Divorce. Kids mostly ignore you. But you know, it’s OK. 

Jeff Noon 

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