March 12th, 2012 at 2:32PM

“Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person’s capacity to act.”
~ Mihaly Csikzentmihaliyi, “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience”

February 11th, 2012 at 4:03PM

“The same circumstance that presents the potential to fail also serves as a gateway to the opportunity to succeed. You cannot close the door on the former, without also closing the door on the latter.”

http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/why-failure-must-be-on-the-table/

February 2nd, 2012 at 12:46PM

The best advice that I’ve read recently on mindset:

“Keep in mind that, within organizations, people who are great at putting out fires very rarely reach the upper levels in their organization since those levels require people with foresight; firefighting and foresight are two different ways of thinking and orienting yourself to the world and your organization, and it’s hard to be excellent at both simultaneously.”

~ Charlie Gilkey, Productive Flourishing http://www.productiveflourishing.com/why-working-from-your-email-inbox-doesnt-work/

September 20th, 2011 at 10:05PM
The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than any one else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn’t; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. —

G.K. Chesterton, “The Man Who Was Thursday”, 1908

http://blog.gaiam.com/quotes/authors/gk-chesterson/59786
June 2nd, 2011 at 10:49AM
…there’s a problem with leaning too heavily on competition as a core driver of innovation. Which is that you unwittingly risk capping your own willingness to birth genius at whatever level your closest competitor gives in at. — Jonathan Fields, “When Competition Stifles Innovation”
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February 20th, 2011 at 9:42AM
You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. —

It’s worth reading the full text (only a few lines) here:

http://www.quotes-clothing.com/you-safely-assume-created-god-own-image-when-hates-people-anne-lamott/
January 31st, 2011 at 11:56AM
attention industry: This is how we lose: metered net, and net neutrality.

attentionindustry:

It’s 2011. Net neutrality isn’t cemented in our laws, and the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has just legalized Usage Based Billing for home broadband connections - in other words, paying for the internet the same way you pay for data on your cell phone. This isn’t…
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December 27th, 2010 at 1:31AM

Today’s designers are poorly trained to meet today’s demands: We need a new form of design education, one with more rigor, more science, and more attention to the social and behavioral sciences, to modern technology, and to business. But we cannot copy the existing courses from those disciplines: we need to establish new ones that are appropriate to the unique requirements of applied design.

But beware: We must not lose the wonderful, delightful components of design. The artistic side of design is critical: to provide objects, interactions and services that delight as well as inform, that are joyful. Designers do need to know more about science and engineering, but without becoming scientists or engineers. We must not lose the special talents of designers to make our lives more pleasurable.

 — Don Norman, “Why Design Education Must Change”. via Core77
December 20th, 2010 at 12:55AM
The irony is that where the ‘internet freedom’ mantra is often no more than a guise for opposition funding in ‘unfriendly’ countries, the rhetoric is catching on and is being mobilized in defense of Wikileaks. — Wikileaks and 21st Century Statecraft « P U L S E
Source: pulsemedia.org
September 11th, 2010 at 12:58AM
Cities — not so-called failed states like Afghanistan and Somalia — are the true daily test of whether we can build a better future or are heading toward a dystopian nightmare. — Parag Khanna, Beyond City Limits, (appearing in Foreign Policy)