Seth Godin on Revolutions→

From Seth's Blog:​

The nature of revolutions is that they destroy the perfect and enable the impossible. Seeking out the tried and true is the wrong direction for crazy times.

Creative People Say No→

Kevin Ashton on Medium: ​

Time is the raw material of creation. Wipe away the magic and myth of creating and all that remains is work: the work of becoming expert through study and practice, the work of finding solutions to problems and problems with those solutions, the work of trial and error, the work of thinking and perfecting, the work of creating. Creating consumes. It is all day, every day. It knows neither weekends nor vacations. It is not when we feel like it. It is habit, compulsion, obsession, vocation. The common thread that links creators is how they spend their time. No matter what you read, no matter what they claim, nearly all creators spend nearly all their time on the work of creation. There are few overnight successes and many up-all-night successes.

Saying “no” has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined. No guards time, the thread from which we weave our creations. The math of time is simple: you have less than you think and need more than you know.

How Pixar Used Moore's Law to Predict the Future→

Pixar co-founder Alvy Ray Smith in Wired: 

We know what Moore’s Law is and how it works, but not many people reflect on why it exists. Yes, there are often physical barriers to innovation. But there’s no imminent physical barrier to the realization of a bit: A bit is merely presence or absence of something, say a voltage, which means it can get exponentially smaller. So with no physical limitation, Moore’s Law reflects the top rate at which humans can innovate. If we could proceed faster, we would.

There are no shortcuts at the edge of discovery and invention. ​

The Productivity Diet

Someone says to me "I want to be as organized and productive as you are." I think, yes it's true, I'm really organized and productive. It's equal parts personality, compulsion and hands-on training as a stage manager as part of my education.​ 

Here's the thing, wanting to be more productive is like wanting to lose weight. You can go on a lifehacking, inbox zero, no carbs diet that will do for a while, but in order to achieve long-term success you really need to commit to healthy habits and changing your behavior. ​

Everything we have to do

From Simon Sinek's Notes to Inspire newsletter:​

If we think of everything we have to do, we feel overwhelmed. If we do the one thing we have to do, we make progress.