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November 14th, 2012 5:38pm

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"You're writing it for you, right? Everyone else is just tagging along for the ride."

November 7th, 2012 2:32pm

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A collaboration between Lauren Randolph & Ryan Schude

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November 3rd, 2012 3:35am

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They all have an aptitude for risk, but more important than that is their capacity for self-delusion. Indeed, psychological investigations have found that they aren't more risk-tolerant than nons. They just have an extraordinary ability to believe in their own visions, so much so that they think what they're embarking on isn't really that risky. —

October 22nd, 2012 3:25pm

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Don’t find fault, find a remedy. Anybody can complain.

- Henry Ford

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October 18th, 2012 1:36am

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Drawings and paintings by Markus Vater.

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October 15th, 2012 1:03am

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October 5th, 2012 2:43am

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Stay hungry, stay foolish. —

October 4th, 2012 1:15pm

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E.B. White, in Here Is New York:
"There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born there, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size, its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter–the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these trembling cities the greatest is the last–the city of final destination, the city that is a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York’s high strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion. And whether it is a farmer arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors, or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart, it makes no difference: each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love, each absorbs New York with the fresh yes of an adventurer, each generates heat and light to dwarf the Consolidated Edison Company."

September 24th, 2012 6:36pm

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What sounds on the face of it like the most utopian of collectivist fantasies — millions of people sharing their ideas with no ownership claims — turns out to have made possible the communications infrastructure of our age. — Steven Johnson

The Internet? We Built That - NYTimes.com

September 19th, 2012 12:44pm

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September 17th, 2012 6:37pm

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LONG LIVE THE KINGS by SAGS

Shot exclusively on super 16mm film, “Long Live The Kings” is six and a half minutes of wanderlust-inducing perfection.

September 16th, 2012 10:53pm

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September 13th, 2012 7:22pm

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A founder is not a job - it's a role, an attitude — Jack Dorsey (at TechCrunch Conference)

that's why i am so happy the founder of Twitter is stil in that role with that attitude

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/25319727

(via roelofbotha)

September 5th, 2012 6:08pm

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David Ogilvy words of wisdom for effective biz communication

- Read the Roman-Raphaelson book on writing*. Read it three times.

- Write the way you talk. Naturally

- Use short words, short sentences and short paragraphs.

- Never use jargon words like reconceptualize, demassification,attitudinally, judgmentally. They are hallmarks of a pretentious ass.

- Never write more than two pages on any subject.

- Check your quotations.

- Never send a letter or a memo on the day you write it. Read it aloud the next morning—and then edit it.

- If it is something important, get a colleague to improve it.

- Before you send your letter or your memo, make sure it is crystal clear what you want the recipient to do.

- If you want ACTION, don't write. Go and tell the guy what you want.

— David Ogilvy