🔖 bookmarks

06/12/25 "happiness comes from balance, progress comes from imbalance" jack altman "it is nice to end up where you wanted to be, but the person you are when you get there is far more important" richard hamming, you and your research "the opposite of success isn’t failure; it is namedropping” nassim nicholas taleb "intensity is the price of excellence" warren buffett "sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect" teller "anyone can get a first meeting" michael ovitz, who is michael ovitz "happiness is not a tangible thing, it's a byproduct of achievement" ray kroc, grinding it out "there's aesthetic value in doing things the right way" danny meyer, setting the table "when there is doubt, there is no doubt” frank slootman, amp it up "you measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you" phil knight, shoe dog "impatience is an argument with reality" rick rubin, the creative act "take care of the work and the work will take care of you" ryan serhant, owning manhattan "never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake" – napoleon bonaparte "be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work" – gustave flaubert "history will be kind to me, for i intend to write it" – winston churchill