The effective way to use a cliché is to point to it and then do precisely the opposite. Juxtapose the cliché with the unexpected truth of what you have to offer.
Happiness can be found even in the darkness of time, if you remember to turn on the lights.
Small is Beautiful.™ — People matter. Small businesses and indie artists enrich the world in a way that no faceless corporation can.
By focusing on only a few core features in the first version, you are forced to find the true essence and value of the product.
Serendipity is becoming more and more important. You have to be able to find things you didn’t even know existed — it becomes more and more critical to your success. From my perspective, it’s more about serendipitous encounters with people, though, than information.
Stressed backwards is dessertS
Life’s too short to drink bad coffee or read bad blogs. Make the effort to care.
This is a world where action forms the basis of content, community provides context and data lives in the center.
At their core, actions speak much louder than any standalone words — professional or personal — can ever speak.
No, no, no, Lisa. If adults don’t like their jobs, they don’t go on strike. They just go in every day and do it really half-assed.
Albert Einstein. The Dude!
Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.
The choice: You can dissipate your gift by making the people with the loudest requests temporarily happy, or you can change the world by saying ‘no’ often.