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 [...]

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in life, there will always be problems, challenges, and setbacks of all shapes and sizes.  it comes with the program.  unfortunately, there is no perfect journey.  too often we allow these issues to overtake and overpower us.  too often, when faced with these challenges we take our eyes off the prize and get stuck in [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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