Responsiveness isn’t just something we can build into our product. It’s an attitude we can adopt. We can learn to listen to the changing environment, to be available to respond. ”
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What do we want to spend more time with? What shapes us? What nourishes us? What do we want to see grow?”
Design is the choices we make about the world we *want* to live in.”
Now we are entering a third age in which the central economic actor is someone who both produces and consumes in the same act. I like the term “creator,” as this new kind of actor is doing something more fundamental than the mere sum of their simultaneous production and consumption. Creators are ordinary people whose everyday actions create value.[...] Thus, just as the time clock symbolized the producer economy and the credit card the consumer economy, the computer mouse is the symbol of the emerging creator economy.”Paul Saffo viaPierat
Do what you love is not the same as love what you do.”
You always hear people say, ‘do what you love, do what you love.’ That’s partly true, but if it’s business, if you start a business doing what you love, it will kill you, it will kill your passion.
If you like to bake and you start a bakery, you will hate baking very soon.
I like ‘love what you do’ better because, it’s kinda like, wherever you are just be good at it, embrace it, love it, and eventually success will find you.
I actually kind of believe that.
But you never forget your passion.”
Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your anti-piracy plan.”
The new canon should bind the content to the device.”
No one can say what that means, [to take someone's life]. The body is a colony of cells. Divided into two major parts, it perishes. But there is no reason to mourn the destruction of a colony of cells: such a colony dies each time a loaf of bread goes into the oven. If a man is no more than such a colony, a man is nothing; but we know instinctively that a man is more. What happens, then, to that part that is more?”Gene Wolfe Shadow of the Torturer
If the function of man is an activity of soul [...] and if we say ‘a so-and-so’ and ‘a good so-and-so’ [...] (e.g. a lyre player and a good lyre player), and so without qualification in all cases, eminence in respect of goodness being added to the name of the function (for the function of a lyre player is to play the lyre, and that of a good lyre player is to do so well) — if this is the case, and we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul [...], and the function of a good man to be the good and noble performance of these [...] — if this is the case, human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence.”Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics I. 7
The internet is the dominant platform for life in the 21st century.”
