maker morning sessions
in july 2009, paul graham wrote an insightful blog post on the difference between managers schedules (the bosses) and makers schedules (the engineers, creatives, artists, programmers of the world). paul argues that managers spend their days in hour blocks because of the millions of meetings they schedule to get things done while makers spend their days in half day blocks because…
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- posted at 6:45 pm
- February 7, 2010
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i would rather tell you to slow down…
this is a memo i sent to my team this week to encourage us to check our mindset and the choices we make when we come through the door (including myself). passing this along in case it means something for you: “everyday we make choices when we come to work. do we spend 15 more minutes checking facebook or figuring…
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- posted at 7:47 am
- February 4, 2010
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the key to finding great relationships
stop looking. this is not a blog post on romance (although the advice for romantic relationships is probably the same). it’s actually about how to generate great ideas and great ideas come from combining what seems like disparate things to form something new, fresh, and seemingly original. in his groundbreaking book, a technique for producing ideas, james webb argues that “an…
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- posted at 5:56 am
- February 2, 2010
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stay hungry, stay foolish
if you have never watched steve jobs’ speech at stanford’s commencement in 2005, you need to. if you don’t have the time to watch it, you can read it. i just watched it again this weekend and the thoughts are invaluable. in his speech job tells three stories in order to communicate these three ideas: make the best decisions for you that…
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