No problem is solved on your email or phone…
No problem is solved on your email or phone, you need deep and impactful, not shallow and busy. — David Hieatt
Zitate
Eine wilde Sammlung von Zitaten, die mich berührt haben.
What would it mean to live…
What would it mean to live at the speed of wood? — Tessa Stuart
You should never be harsh to…
Aesthetics of Horseness to a Horse You should never be harsh To a horse. A horse is always doing Its best. Otherwise It is a bad horse And harshness has No effect. — Kenneth Koch
Have nothing in you house...
Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. — William Morris
Avoid the crowd
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. — Ralph Charell
If at first you don't succeed,…
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving's not for you — Anonymous
When I work late or long hours coding something,…
When I work late or long hours coding something, it is expressly NOT because I enjoy it. It's because I can't stomach the thought of wasting another day of my life on this shit. — Justin Searls
I spent a great deal of my life being ignored
I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always happy that way. Being ignored is a great privilege. — Saul Leiter
Bescheidenheit ist eine seltsame Sache…
Bescheidenheit ist diese seltsame Sache, die man in dem Moment verliert, in dem man glaubt, sie zu besitzen. — Anonym (fälschlicherweise Sir Edward Hulse zugeschrieben)
Creativity is the last unfair advantage...
Creativity is the last unfair advantage we're legally allowed to take over our competitors. — Bill Bernbach
Being an Apple customer is like being in a 24/7 BDSM relationship…
Being an Apple customer is like being in a 24/7 BDSM relationship…without a safe-word. — Cory Doctorow
Someone with half your IQ...
Someone with half your IQ is making 10x as you because they aren't smart enough to doubt themselves. — Ed Latimore
It’s a perversion of business life that fancy words always cost more...
It’s a perversion of business life that fancy words always cost more than plain ones, even though the plain ones are more valuable. — Sam Ruby
Don’t let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity.
Don’t let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. — Mae Jemison, American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut
Die AfD hat steuerpolitisch einen Malle-Ansatz
Die AfD hat steuerpolitisch einen Malle-Ansatz... ... oben ohne. — Marc Uwe Kling
a very good tradeoff for sometimes off the rails agents
A lot of old school "java-ish" paradigms are going to come back with AI for the same reason people used them with Java back in the day - they put golden handcuffs on implementors, which is a bad … — CuriouslyC
CSU: Inszenierung der Politik...
CSU: Inszenierung der Politik mit den Mitteln des Bauerntheaters. — Max Uthoff
Boring management matters
The evidence is clear that boring management matters. — Raffaella Sadun
Das Ziel totalitärer Erziehung…
Das Ziel totalitärer Erziehung war nie, Überzeugungen zu vermitteln, sondern die Fähigkeit zu zerstören, solche zu bilden. — Hannah Arendt
… but whether men do.
But the real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. — B. F. Skinner
It’s faster to make a four inch mirror…
It is faster to make a four-inch mirror then a six-inch mirror than to make a six-inch mirror. — Bill McKeeman. Wang Institute
Sometimes magic is just...
Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect. — Teller
Triumph is made from try and umph
Goal + Toll = SUCCESS. Establish your goal. Be prepared to pay the price in terms of time, money, energy and credit-sharing, and you’ll succeed. Remember: Triumph is made up of two words: TRY … — Robert H. Schuller
I would pay so much for a version of…
I would pay so much extra for a version of Claude or ChatGPT that paid the same toll I do whenever I fuck up. Make guilt a stateful property that decays over weeks or months. Trigger simulated … — Justin Searls
Fascism is a counterrevolution…
Fascism is a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place. — Ignazio Silone
I gave all my Apple wealth away…
I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for. I have a lot of fun and happiness. I funded a lot of important museums and arts groups in San Jose, the city of my … — Steve Wozniak
You can’t wait until life isn’t hard anymore before…
You can’t wait until life isn’t hard anymore before you decide to be happy. — Nightbirde
The art of strategy…
The art of strategy is to stay one step ahead of the need to be efficient. — Dr Jules Goddard
The average is the enemy of the marketer
The average is the enemy of the marketer. It only allows for one answer. And that answer is usually wrong and always boring. — Mark Ritson
It is better to be vaguely right…
It is better to be vaguely right than exactly wrong. — Carveth Read (often incorrectly attributed to John Maynard Keynes)
Rational decision in search of one…
Carmaking is 100,000 rational decisions in search for 1 emotional one. — Kumar Galhotra, Ford Motor Company
Scott Galloway on Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg who has done more damage to young people while making more money than anyone in the history of the planet. — Scott Galloway
Wie viele Lobbyisten braucht man um…
Wie viele Lobbyisten braucht man, um eine Glühbirne zu wechseln? Antwort: Keinen, weil sie lieber alle im Dunkeln lassen. — Scott Galloway
A weed with an advertising budget…
A flower is simply a weed with an advertising budget. — Rory Sutherland
It works in practice, but...
It works in practice, but does it work in theory? — Anonymous
Pretending economics was true
People’s motivations are not always well-aligned with the interests of a business: the best decision to make is to pursue rational self-justification, not profit. No one was ever fired for pretending … — Rory Sutherland
The idea of mind-altering substances...
The idea of mind-altering substances gives me the willies. Fill your tank with nitro, the car goes fast, sure, but not far. — Raymond Joseph Teller
Bullshit Squared
To put it crudely, when you multiply bullshit with bullshit, you don’t get a bit more bullshit – you get bullshit squared. — Rory Sutherland
Culture & Capitalism
[…] now much of mainstream American culture has simply reverted to the roots of capitalism: Making things that most people want. By course-correcting the culture, we've course-corrected commerce. No … — DHH
Nothing is impossible…
Nothing is impossible to the chap who doesn’t have to do it himself. — Spuriously attributed to A. H. Weiler
What questions you care about…
LLMs are good at giving fast answers. They’re not good at knowing what questions you care about, or which answers are meaningful. Only you can do that. You should use AI-powered tools to complement … — Recurse Center
Konservativismus
Der Konservatismus besteht aus genau einer Prämisse: Es muss Innen-Gruppen geben, die das Gesetz schützt, aber nicht verpflichtet, und Außen-Gruppen, die das Gesetz verpflichtet, aber nicht schützt. — Wilhoits Gesetz (nach Frank Wilhoit)
Crazy isn’t being broken…
Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever. — Susanna Kaysen "Girl, Interrupted"
Filter it through the sieve of time
“Now” is often the wrong time to say what just popped into your head. It’s better to let it filter it through the sieve of time. What’s left is the part worth saying. — 37signals
Brevity
Fetishize brevity… … even when you have space. — Eddie Shleyner
Robots that feel alive?
This raises a question: do we actually want to build robots that feel alive? Or is there a threshold, somewhere past expressiveness, where the system becomes too agentic, too unpredictable to stay … — Le Cauchois, Matthieu B.
Veränderungen dauern oft länger…
Veränderungen dauern oft länger, als man denkt, und dann gehen sie schneller, als man gedacht hätte." — Frei nach Rüdiger Dornbusch
All models are wrong…
All models are wrong. Some are useful. — George Box
An argument with the garage…
We want our self-driving car to be inhumanly focused on the road, not obsessing over an argument it had with the garage. — Kevin Kelly
Um einmal erfolgreich zu sein…
Um einmal erfolgreich zu sein, konzentriere dich auf das Ergebnis; um dauerhaft erfolgreich zu sein, konzentriere dich auf den Prozess, der zum Ergebnis führt. — Kevin Kelly
Auf lange Sicht entscheiden Optimisten…
Auf lange Sicht entscheiden Optimisten über die Zukunft. Um optimistisch zu sein, musst du nicht die vielen Probleme ignorieren, die wir verursachen, sondern dir einfach vor Augen führen, wie sehr … — Unbekannt
Being enthusiastic…
Being enthusiastic is worth 25 IQ points. — Kevin Kelly
Being right or being kind…
Whenever you have a choice between being right or being kind be kind. No exceptions. Don’t confuse kindness with weakness. — Kevin Kelly
Werkzeuge
Zuerst kauf dir die absolut günstigsten Werkzeuge, die du finden kannst. Die, die du oft benutzt, rüste qualitativ auf. Wenn du ein Werkzeug für einen Job nutzt, kauf dir das beste, das du dir … — Unbekannt
Hobbies are survival…
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: hobbies aren’t luxury. They’re survival. They’re how we regulate. How we remember who we are outside of a job title or a company name. People who regularly … — Ashley Willis
Have you ever felt despair…
Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, deep in your heart, in your spirit, that it was never, ever going to get better? That something had … — Jim Butcher, Storm Front - A Harry Dresden Novel
Utterly, entirely alone…
I suddenly felt, for the very first time in my life, utterly, entirely alone. That something was gone that would never return, that a little hole had been hollowed out inside of me that wasn’t ever … — Jim Butcher, Storm Front - A Harry Dresden Novel
Citizenship in a Republic
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the … — Theodore Roosevelt
Don’t worry…
If the problem can be solved, why worry? And if the problem can’t be solved, then worrying will do you no good. — Shantideva
Long on noise, short on meaningful connections
Our world is long on noise and short on meaningful connections and positive leadership. — Seth Godin
Do what you love…
Do what you love is for amateurs. Love what you do is the mantra for professionals. — Seth Godin
Far better an approximate answer…
Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise. — John Tukey
Meetings are a disaster.
When you're operating on the maker's schedule, meetings are a disaster. A single meeting can blow a whole afternoon, by breaking it into two pieces each too small to do anything hard in. — Paul Graham
Schon das Hinzufügen eines einzigen zusätzlichen Projekts...
Schon das Hinzufügen eines einzigen zusätzlichen Projekts führt zu einem Verlust von 20% der Zeit. Bei drei Projekten geht bereits fast die Hälfte der Zeit durch Task-Switching verloren. — Gerald Weinberg
The second we stop trying to get better...
The second we stop trying to get better is the moment we start getting gradually worst. — Ryan Holiday (paraphrasing Marcus Aurelius)
Bittere Pillen in offene Münder
Also bringt er Menschen zum lachen und wirft dann bittere Pillen in offene Münder. — Bayerischer Rundfunk "Claus von Wagner: Wer braucht heute noch die Kunst der Übertreibung?"
Mut, Enttäuschung - Brené Brown
Do not think you can be brave with your life and your work and never disappoint anyone. It doesn’t work that way — Brené Brown
Selbstbeschränkung
Limit your time, format, word count, and audience. Restrict yourself! Restrict yourself, lest fear paralyzes you. Restrict yourself, lest freedom enslaves you. — Eddie Shleyner
Noch mehr carpe diem
decided to carpe the hell out of that diem — Craig Alanson
Zukunft - Nancy Duarte
The future isn’t a place we are going to go, it’s a place we get to create. — Nancy Duarte