• We tend to overestimate what we can do in a day, and underestimate what we can achieve in a decade. Miraculous things can be accomplished if you give it ten years. A long game will compound small gains to overcome even big mistakes.
• Aim to prioritize simplicity and help your team to focus on understanding problems
• EAST: if you want someone to do something, make it Easy, Attractive, Social, and Timely
• Be an encourager, the world has enough critics already.
• People will forget what you do; they will forget what you said. But they’ll never forget how you made them feel. - Maya Angelou
• Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape. - The Hogfather
• All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking - Friedrich Nietzsche
• Life is too short to worry about stupid things. Have fun. Fall in love. Regret nothing, and don't let people bring you down. Study, think, create, and grow. Teach yourself and teach others. - Feynman
• It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. - Seneca
• Don't mix confident with competent - cosmodisk
• Not all things should be automated - cosmodisk
• When negotiating, dont aim for a bigger piece of the pie; aim to create a bigger pie. - Kevin Kelly
• If you repeated what you did today 365 more times will you be where you want to be next year? - Kevin Kelly
• You are as big as the things that make you angry. - Kevin Kelly
• When you are stuck, explain your problem to others. Often simply laying out a problem will present a solution. Make “explaining the problem” part of your troubleshooting process. - Kevin Kelly
• It’s thrilling to be extremely polite to rude strangers. - Kevin Kelly
• A wise man said, “Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates. At the first gate, ask yourself, “Is it true?” At the second gate ask, “Is it necessary?” At the third gate ask, “Is it kind?” - Kevin Kelly
• A great way to understand yourself is to seriously reflect on everything you find irritating in others. - Kevin Kelly
• Spend as much time crafting the subject line of an email as the message itself because the subject line is often the only thing people read. - Kevin Kelly
• Don’t wait for the storm to pass; dance in the rain. - Kevin Kelly
• When public speaking, pause frequently. Pause before you say something in a new way, pause after you have said something you believe is important, and pause as a relief to let listeners absorb details. - Kevin Kelly
• The consistency of your endeavors (exercise, companionship, work) is more important than the quantity. Nothing beats small things done every day, which is way more important than what you do occasionally. - Kevin Kelly
• Immediately pay what you owe to vendors, workers, contractors. They will go out of their way to work with you first next time. - Kevin Kelly
• About 99% of the time, the right time is right now - Kevin Kelly
• If you don't change direction, you may end up where you're heading.
• As, therefore, the two principal qualities required in an Orator, are to be neat and clear in stating the nature of his subject, and warm and forcible in moving the passions; and as he who fires and inflames his audience, will always effect more than he who can barely inform and amuse them... - Cicéron
• Any idiot can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands. - Someone
• Thinking is also work
• Ignore confident forecasters, ignore universal solutions - Philip E. Tetlock
• Litmus test for effective leadership: any room that you enter should have more certainty and a firmer plan by the time that you leave it.
• Tell the team what you need them to accomplish and how the results will be measured, and let them figure out the best way to solve the problems - Marty Cagan
• Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. - Robert Louis Stevenson
• We don’t build software like a bridge; we grow it like a garden.
• Tim Cook priorities : 1. People, 2. Strategy, 3. Execution
• We need to solve the underlying problem, not just deliver a feature - Marty Cagan
• Baker's Dozen: The key to good hospitality is to delight your guests with an unexpected gift. If you run a hotel, leave a chocolate on the bed. If you run a bakery, give your customers one extra bagel. If you write a tweetstorm, share an extra idea.
• Legibility: We are blind to what we cannot measure. Not everything that counts can be measured, and not everything that can be measured counts. But people manage what they can measure, so society repeats the same mistakes.
• Hock Principle: Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior.
• You have to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology - Steve Jobs
• Solve problems as early as possible in the value chain
• To calculate is not in itself to analyze. - Edgar Allen Poe, Murders in the Rue Morgue
• How many things one must ignore in order to act. – Paul Valéry
• I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. - E. B. White
• Don’t ask people for their opinion, but for a detailed description of their situation.
• It’s the things we don’t do that tire us out. – Clara Gaymard
• Think through time — What do the consequences look like in 10 minutes? 10 months? 10 years?
• Reconsider your choices
• To make an important choice, consider several scenarios
• Give away your Lego bricks; there are plenty of other things to build.
• Fall in love with the problem not the solution.
• Don’t be data-driven. Be data-informed.
• Before you make an offer to someone, think about whether you’d like to have 10 times as many people like them in your company.
• Define your vision, goals and objectives for your life, business, health etc. At the end of each day write down the six most important tasks that you need to complete the following day to achieve your vision, goals and objectives. Prioritize these six tasks. Each day begin with most important task on the list and do not move onto the next task until the previous one is complete
• Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who’ll argue with you.
• We are not our thoughts
• During the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called Warre; and such a warre, as is of every man, against every man. - Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan
• From this equality of ability ariseth equality of hope in the attaining of our ends. Hence it comes to pass that where two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies. - Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan
• The office of the sovereign consisteth in the end for which he was trusted with the sovereign power, namely the procuration of the safety of the people. - Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan
• The obedience which each citizen pays to the law, he has prescribed for himself, is freedom. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau in The Social Contract
• It is plainly contrary to the law of nature... that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities, while the hungry multitude are in want of necessities. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Discourse on Inequality
• The only habit the child should be allowed to contract is that of having no habits. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Emile
• We have no right to demand from a child the conduct of a man. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Emile
• Society tames the dangerous beast called man. - Friedrich Nietzsche in Beyond Good and Evil
• In despotic states, the ruler himself administers everything according to his will and caprice. - Montesquieu in The Spirit of the Laws
• The political liberty of the subject is a tranquillity of mind arising from the opinion each person has of his safety. - Montesquieu in The Spirit of the Laws.
• Solving well defined problems and solving poorly defined problems are two entirely different skills. Intelligence is not only the ability to solve well defined problems - Adam Mastroianni in Why aren't smart people happier?
• Anything that is not about a form of problem-solving is not going to be core to game systems design. - Raph Koster
• Building a toy is an excellent place to start designing a game. - Raph Koster
• Feedback in game design: show what you can do, that you did it, what difference it made, and whether it helped - Raph Koster
• Progression in game design: vary intensity and pressure, give players a chance to practice and moments to be tested. - Raph Koster
• If you think hard work, loyalty and waiting your turn wil get you promoted, you are dead wrong. - Jeffrey Pfeffer
• If you break the rules, you will be perceived as having power - Jeffrey Pfeffer
• Delay is the best remedy for anger - Seneca
• The four cardinal virtues or European philosophy are: Prudence, Justice, Courage and Temperance
• Don't hire amateurs to save money - Ryan Holiday
• It always takes longer than you expect
• Memento mori
• Correspondence bias: the tendency to attribute other people’s actions to their personalities rather than to their situations. You see a dude get angry and assume he’s an angry dude, rather than he’s having a bad day. - Adam Mastroianni
• If you need a machine and don’t buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don’t have it. - Henry Ford via Clayton Christensen