“After a couple of discussions like that, I realized that he was saying was that I should think about whether that was really the most valuable thing I could be doing … it would be more useful to think about what high-impact things I could do that no one else was doing.” – Michael Abrash
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
We’re Not Ourselves
thanks to nazgulnsarsil for inspiring the comic.
“You can’t change the world”
“Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life or do you want to come with me and change the world?” – Steve Jobs
Two Prices
“This is, after all, the way of our new product-based civilization — in order to participate as a citizen of the social web, you must yourself manufacture content. Progress requires that forms must be filled. Thus it is a critical choice of any adult as to where they will perform their free labor.” – Paul …
“My Courage is a Wild Dog”
How Reasonable
“In retrospect, it seems pretty clear that my Objectivist phase had more to do with the subjective agonies of post-adolescence (insecurity, narcissism) than it did with pure reason.” – Sam Anderson, NY Times Magazine
Slumming it
“Slum tourism is a type of tourism that involves visiting impoverished areas, which has become increasingly prominent in several developing countries like India, Brazil, Kenya, and Indonesia The concept began in poor sections of London and by 1884 had started in Manhattan.”
“I’m not interested in selling pieces of plastic.”
“Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator. People who look at music as commerce don’t understand that.” – Jeff Tweedy
Challenge Accepted
“We challenge people to sit in the chamber in the dark – one reporter stayed in there for 45 minutes.” – Steven Orfield
And if it doesn’t matter…
“Competition on price also implies that the content of your ebook doesn’t matter…I’d much rather have one such customer who I found by charging $39 than 13 less enthusiastic customers who feel my product is as disposable as a cup of over-roasted coffee. That one customer will do much more to help build my new …