The Yin & Yang of Creativity

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Quotes for Today

 Some quotes that I hope may resonate with you.

"Social media is to socializing what masturbation is to sex." - Oliver Markus Malloy

"Creativity starts with an empty calendar and ends with a full one." - Naval Ravikant

"Be a good animal, true to your instincts." - D.H. Lawrence

"The person who carefully designs their daily routine goes further than the person that negotiates with themselves every day." - Shane Parrish

Cannabis and Creativity

"Cannabis will make you think you are more creative" without actually increasing your creativity. That's basically the findings of some recent studies. 

Shakespeare said alcohol adds the desire but takes away the performance when it comes to sex. When it comes to creativity it seems pot makes you think your ideas aren't all shit without actually improving your ideas. 

Quotes for Today

Some quotes that I hope may resonate with you.

"Social media is to socializing what masturbation is to sex." - Oliver Markus Malloy

"Creativity starts with an empty calendar and ends with a full one." - Naval Ravikant

"Be a good animal, true to your instincts." - D.H. Lawrence

"Imagine what you could accomplish if you weren't focused on being busy all the time." - Shane Parrish

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"The Almighty provided us with such a powerful sense of dignity that we cannot tolerate the denial of our inalienable rights and freedoms, no matter what real or supposed benefits are provided by 'stable' authoritarian regimes." - Roza Otunbaveva

"Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger." - Don Lucchesi Godfather III

"I'm not a number. Damn it I'm a man, I said I'm a man." - Bob Seger

"Alcohol is an excellent servant and a terrible master." - Christopher Hitchens

"Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory." - Dr. Seuss

"Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it." - Vincent Van Gogh

"To think too much is a disease." - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Farnam Street Knowledge

-  Why Small Habits Make a Big Difference

- "Joosting": The Key to Creativity

- Elon Musk Recommends 12 Books That Changed His Life

Farnam Street Knowledge

- Steve Jobs on Creativity

- Opinions and Organizational Theory

- Chesterton's Fence: A Lesson in Second Order Thinking. This reminds me of one of the simple processes I learned when I first got into sales. The simple questions of what do you have now? How did you decide on the solution you have now? What do you like about what you have now? And what would you like to change about what you have now? Simple discovery questions but if you listened to the answers they usually gave you the road map to proposing the correct solution for the client's new needs.

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Interesting - Congress mandates cable TV pricing disclosures. Good first step towards full transparency of what subscribers are actually paying for.

- Very Cool

- Definitely going to hell for laughing at this

- US Coast Guard says Ryuk ransomware took down maritime facility. HT Stephen Landry

- Concussion lawsuit against Pop Warner Football is dismissed

- Star Wars humor

- How to live a creative life

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Yeah I think I'm going to eliminate Vermont maple syrup from my diet after seeing this.

- I love Arnold

- This is hilarious!

- Very cool! I'm sure we will hear much more about this new star as we get closer to 2022.

- It was only a matter of time. For the first time streaming eclipses disc sales in 2016.

- How to live a creative life