2. • These are quotes from book / articles / podcasts / etc. I
read or listened to in 2019
• Sometimes I forgot the author unfortunately 😞
• My goal is to read them as often as possible in order to
absorb their wisdom
• At one point or another I’ll take each of my key learnings
and reflect upon them by writings notes about them
3. The major objection cited by people against striving to do
great things is the belief it is all a matter of luck. I have
repeatedly cited Pasteur’s remark, “Luck favors the prepared
mind”. It both admits there is an element of luck, and yet
claims to a great extent it is up to you. You prepare yourself to
succeed, or not, as you choose, from moment to moment, by
the way you live your life.
Hamming, Richard R.. Art of Doing Science and Engineering:
Learning to Learn.
7. Never fool yourself, and remember
that you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
8. We are A-to-Z thinkers, fretting about A, obsessing
over Z, yet forgetting all about B through Y.
- Ryan Holliday
9. The process is about doing the right things, right
now. Not worrying about what might happen
later, or the results, or the whole picture.
Ryan Holliday
10. You never change things by fighting the existing
reality. To change something, build a new model
that makes the existing model obsolete.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
11. What a Man wishes, he will also
believe.
Demosthenes
12. We are rich not through the things we own,
but through the relationships that nourish
our soul.
Frederic Laloux
13. Someone once told me that growth
and comfort do not coexist. And I think
it’s a really good thing to remember.
Ginni Rometty
14. The “vulnerability loop”, a shared exchange of
openness, is “the most basic building bloc of
cooperation and trust”:
Person A sends a signal of vulnerability.
Person B detects this signal.
Person B responds by signaling their own vulnerability.
Person A detects this signal.
A norm is established; closeness and trust increase.
Jeff Polzer
15. Créez toujours, au profit du peuple, les instruments
de son bien être, et vous aurez créé les instruments
de sa puissance et de son émancipation.
Jean-Baptiste André Godin
16. To begin you must study the end. You don’t
want to be the first to act, you want to be
the last man standing.
Jose Raul Capablanca
17. If you’re truly user-centric, admit that the most
meaningful life stuff happens beyond the borders of
tiny glowing rectangles. UX folks are brokers and
intermediaries, not rock stars or ninjas. Your job is to
swallow some boredom so people can live better lives.
Ryan Bigge