pettiness

"My advice, for what it’s worth: try not to be distracted by the faintly discourteous, the mildly incompetent, the harmlessly obnoxious. Roll with the delayed trains, dropped litter and misused apostrophes. Save your powder for the truly malevolent creatures now stalking the land."

- Hugh Laurie

one of the greatest cellists of all time

 Interviewer:

At 90, why do you continue to practice 3 hours per day?

Pablo Casals [1876-1973]:

Because I'm beginning to notice improvement.

the importance of coding

Young kids coding and building businesses to save deindustrialized communities/countries like Latvia. The next episode should be about older people getting into it and finding work. They make it seem as though you need to start really early which is discouraging.

good to great

"Greatness is not a function of larger than life leaders, exorbitant executive compensation, killer business strategies, advanced technologies, mergers and acquisitions, or big change initiatives. Over the long run, these are all collective crutches an organization leans on to prop itself up - but none of these enable a company to become great. So what makes a company great? Disciplined people, disciplined thought, and disciplined actions over an extended period. Having 'the right people on the bus.' Having the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, in thought and in action, is the recipe for greatness."
- Attributed to Jim Collins

“Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it. Myself included.”

- Pablo Picasso