So I thought about calling you, she said, and telling you all the things I’m good at and all the things I like to do. But I figured that everyone is doing that. So instead I want to know what’s your biggest problem and how can I solve it. My jaw hit the floor. I’d hired thousands of people up to that point in my career, but no one had ever said anything like that.
It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn’t immoral — it’s a moral imperative.
Taisuke Mohri, Resurrections, Giuliano de’Medici, pencil on paper, 73 cm x 73 cm
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Así batearon a zaratrusta (genio!)
Twitter feels like continually moving to NYC without knowing anyone whereas Facebook feels like you’re living in your hometown and hanging with everyone you went to high school with. Twitter’s we’re-all-here-in-the-moment thing… is what makes it possible for people to continually reinvent themselves on Twitter. You don’t have any of that Facebook baggage, the peer pressure from a lifetime of friends, holding you back. You are who your last dozen tweets say you are.
Jason Kottke, “Twitter is a machine for continual self-invention” (via austinkleon)
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The city and the storm #NYC | Preciosa fotografía.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
