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from anonymous angry people

Expose yourself to art you don’t yet understand

Precisely measure the results that are important to you

Stay blind to the metrics that don’t matter

Fail often

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Lead, don’t manage so much…

…and more here, from Seth’s Blog.

It made me smile.

"In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unamended in the world. Do not focus on that. There is a tendency too to fall into being weakened by persevering on what is outside your reach, by what cannot yet be. Do not focus there. That is spending the wind, without raising the sails.One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times."

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Not he’ll, not shut…

My iPhone insists on auto-correcting profanity. Seeing as we’ve not spent a day apart in years, I think it should know me better than that.

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What to do next

“If you’re not willing to face the abyss of choice, you will almost certainly not spend enough time dancing with opportunity.”

The SkyMall is full of treasures to  covet. This trip, I discovered that nothing says “escape the power of  gravity” quite like a tennis shoe emblazoned with a sperm.

The SkyMall is full of treasures to covet. This trip, I discovered that nothing says “escape the power of gravity” quite like a tennis shoe emblazoned with a sperm.

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"Social good is not a world owned by saints and martyrs, nor is it defined by the scale of the problem you’re hoping to solve. Social good is everybody’s, and it happens each time we do something a little better, a little greener, and a little more considerately than the people before us."

From You and Your Meaningless Career in Advertising. More here.

Why you should care about typography

My design-loving, type-loving heart loves this. Check it out here.

"Sometimes you have to act as if acting will make a difference, even when you can’t prove that it will."

Michael Pollan