The Good Life: Art, Surfing, and Strategy
Elizabeth McGuane interviews Kate Towsey. Bright and lovely.
Building Confidence: The Hidden Content Deliverable
Corey Vilhauer reminds us of how important it is to encourage our clients:
[W]e’re charged to work with empathy, snaking through the objections to present a better environment for organizational change, which in turn will help us create editorial change.
Kevin Spacey on desire, ambition, and learning from your colleagues.
That’s not a strategy. That’s two strategies connected by the word ‘and.’
Don Draper
Do less. But do what you do with complete and hard focus. Then when you’re done be done, and go enjoy the rest of the day.
Cal Newport on focus
10 Tips on Writing the Living Web
Found in the ALA archives: Mark Bernstein, 2002:
Write for a reason, and know why you write.
The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.
Victor Papanek
A deadline has a wonderful way of concentrating the mind.
Moriarty, Star Trek: The Next Generation: Ship in a Bottle
Our goal was to bring a liberal arts perspective and a liberal arts audience to what had traditionally been a very geeky technology and a very geeky audience… Because in my perspective, and the way I was raised, was that science and computer science is a liberal art. It’s something that everyone should know how to use, at least, and harness in their life.
Steve Jobs to Terry Gross in 1996
