Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google
(From Katie Couric’s book “The Best Advice I Ever Got,” excerpted by The Daily Beast)
Yes!!
The Takeaway from Warren Buffett’s Office Hours: ”Find the job you would have if you were independently rich. Associate with people you love doing what you love,” Buffett says. “How can it be any better?”
Agree…
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people.
Unfortunately, that’s too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.
—Thanks Steve (via mostexerent, youmightfindyourself) (via logeybearbro) (via pingonow) (via mostexerent)
Connect the dots…
Truth…
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The Life-Giving Pursuit of Minimalism | Ignite Phoenix #14 (by Ignite Phoenix)
The goal…
Take a piece of advice from Oprah and say what you want out loud.
(Via Entrepreneur)
No ceilings…
We’re in the process of moving right now. As I struggle to move all of our stuff from one house to another, I can tell you with full confidence that this statement is true.
Preach!!!
We all do it…
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Truth…
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Paul Higgins: Why I have gone to a car sharing service with Flexicar
Costs me about a quarter of that
The cost of car ownership | SmartPlanet (via futuristgerd)
The more you know…
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There are two fundamental ways that Big Pharma can make money:
- Invent new drugs
- Invent new diseases
The DSM-V is being released on May 22nd, which is the bible of psychiatry where new mental health diseases are described. It’s a very political book and the American Psychiatric Association owns the content. However, writing it is best described as “It is as if J. K. Rowling had produced her Harry Potter sequels in a glass studio with fans looking on and banging the windows whenever she typed something they didn’t like.”
Most people agree that this version extends the role of psychiatry into our daily life even more extensively and will help more of us qualify as patients.
But the real issue is:
“The D.S.M. has enormous impact on the public health. It determines which conditions insurers will cover, which drugs regulators will approve, which children will receive special-education services, and which criminal defendants will be able to stand trial and, in some cases, how they will be sentenced. Psychiatry has already reached far into our daily lives, and it’s not by virtue of the particulars of any given D.S.M. It’s because the A.P.A., a private guild, one with extensive ties to the drug industry, owns the naming rights to our pain. That so significant a public trust is in private hands, and on such questionable grounds, is what we ought to worry about.”
The more you know…
