Taste
Carefully handpicked highlights of my personal taste
Books
The Design of Everyday Things, by Dan Norman
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, by Mark Manson
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, Or How to Build the Future, by Peter Thiel
The Banquet of Plato, Dialogue Translated by Percy B. Shelley
Hell Yeah or No, Derek Sivers
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert M. Pirsig
Make Something Wonderful, Steve Jobs in his own words, by Steve Jobs Archive
The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years, by Chinghiz Aitmatov
Essays
Quotes
The moment you know, you know, you know
David Bowie, Where Are We Now
He was an individual individual
The Alpinist
You can go either way, either way is fine
N.G
Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage.
Anais Nin
No matter where you go, there you are.
Buckaroo Banzai
Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty.
David Foster Wallace, Roger Federer as Religious Experience
Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven’t asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the question — you have to want to know — in order to open up the space for the answer to fit.
Jason Fried paraphrasing Clayton Christensen
The winds of tomorrow will blow tomorrow
Japanese proverb
To me a business is a collection of people and a collection of decisions
Jason Fried
Secrets are like a callus on your heart
John Dutton, Yellowstone Season 3 episode 8
No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge.
George Boole
The simplest way to clarify your thinking is to write a full page about whatever you are dealing with and then delete everything except the 1-2 sentences that explain it best
James Clear
A problem well stated is a problem half-solved
Charles Kettering
Don't let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Speach
Its moments like corners in the end of the game.. that can create history
David Beckham's Father
The best journeys answer questions that at the beginning you didnt even think to ask
Submerge
I would have written you a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
Blaise Pascal
Just for today make a change, be aware that the only constant is change. So do something new, go somewhere new, meet somebody new, think something new and allow your world to change as a result
Tom Evans
We are of nature ladies and gentlemen, not above nature
Stuart Kauffman, The "Adjacent Possible"
The curse of lacking courage is regret
Someone on twitter
It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
Citizenship in a Republic- Speech given by Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
Products
Red Julius Meinl Coffee Cup aesthetically pleasing cup, perfect for your macineta coffee
LifeStraw a hollow-membrane filter built into a straw allowing you to drink water from almost anywhere
Loom a video messaging tool that helps you get your message across through instantly shareable videos.
Gamma a new medium for presenting ideas (I believe their editor is great)
Readwise Reader read-it-later app for power readers.