“Growing up, everything you’re told to do is for no other purpose than to earn the approval of others around you. It’s to satisfy somebody else’s standard. Our system is performance-based and not purpose-based. It teaches mimicry and not passion.”
“There is no need to sharpen my pencils any more. My pencils are sharp enough. Even the dull ones will make a mark.”
“Everybody is interesting if you give them the chance to be.”
“CNN’s approach to covering politics often prioritizes drama and spectacle over serious truth telling.”
“You don’t have to center everything. Often left-aligning can create more visual interest.”
“86% of millennials say, ‘Fans have at least some ownership of the things they’re fans of.’ 50% of millennialls say, ‘Someone should make a movie about my life.’ 33% of millennials say, ‘There isn’t really such a thing as the truth.’”
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” — Albert Einstein
A lot has changed in the last 30 days.
And a lot more will change in the next 30.
The best way to ensure our lives change in the directions we want is to reflect on the choices we’ve made and make deliberate decisions moving forward.
Here’s a simple way to do that.
“When these features are being designed, are they being designed to most help people live their life? Or are they being designed because they’re best at hooking people into using the product?”
“A story is kind of a black box and you’re going to put the reader in there. She’s going to spend some time with this thing you’ve made and when she comes out, what’s going to have happened to her in there is something kind of astonishing. It feels like the curtain’s been pulled back and she’s gotten a glimpse into a deeper truth. As a story writer, that’s not as easy as it sounds.”