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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

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.

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