"being satisfied with having a plan is not at all like being satisfied with success.""Instead of asking what you could do, you ought to have been asking what needs to be done." Think it takes a bit of balance on the second one....sometimes asking what needs to be done leads you to do nothing because of an overwhelming goal, while asking what you can do at least lets you find a place to start. - Adam Kazwell
"In 1988, I learned that I didn’t have to read books to ace tests. So I stopped reading books. I read a chunk of Sarah Lacy’s book and was satisfied that I am not missing anything. As someone who has written more books than I’ve read, I feel bad for people who read books. This year, consider actually making things." - Adam Kazwell
"It’s not a game, it’s a toy! It is perfect when having a poo, which is pretty much when I use the iPhone the most." I'm glad that someone else has finally recognized the poop optimization that the iPhone provides. - Adam Kazwell
While Oden and Rudy were expected to be centers of attention, perhaps it's surprising that the third name spotlighted in the Oregonian was that of Sergio Rodriguez....on Draft Night 2007, we noted that one of the side benefits of the Rudy draft pick was that he and Sergio had developed excellent chemistry as teammates on the Spanish national team which won the World Championship in 2006....man, do those guys play well together (scroll down to see some highlights...specifically from the game against Lithuania) - Adam Kazwell
In its broad strokes, McCain's life story is oddly similar to that of the current occupant of the White House. John Sidney McCain III and George Walker Bush both represent the third generation of American dynasties. Both were born into positions of privilege against which they rebelled into mediocrity. Both developed an uncanny social intelligence that allowed them to skate by with a minimum of mental exertion. Both struggled with booze and loutish behavior. At each step, with the aid of their fathers' powerful friends, both failed upward....In one vital respect, however, the comparison is deeply unfair to the current president: George W. Bush was a much better pilot. - Adam Kazwell
I don't normally link to Apple rumors, but hoping this one is true..."An as-yet-unannounced event on October 14th will herald in a new iteration of MacBooks, but the big news won't actually be about the laptop. Apparently, Apple has created a brand-new process to sculpt casings for products that will supposedly allow for seamless components which require no bending or folding, won't use screws to join together, are ultra-light but also "super strong," and will enable the company to rapidly prototype and produce new designs....if these rumors get magically transmuted into reality, there's no telling what kind of new gear Apple might have up its sleeve." - Adam Kazwell
"Do you know those little arrows that appear in iTunes when you have a song selected? You know, the ones that appear just after the title of the song, artist, and album and link to the iTunes Store when clicked? If you want the arrows to link to your iTunes library instead of Apple's iTMS then just type the following command into Terminal" - Adam Kazwell
Google is the ONLY company that has succeeded in web advertising. Why? Because they perfected search advertising, an entirely web-native form of advertising, whose value proposition is perfect for the web and which has no offline analogue. Web use is driven more and more by utility. Online advertising must create value for users or it will create little or no value for advertisers. - Adam Kazwell
"if the implosion of the investment banks tells us anything, it's this: when what we do is meaningless, it's neither economically valid, strategically viable, nor truly value-creating." - Adam Kazwell
we're only going to have more data collected going forward, but we need to increase the quality of questions being asked of this data. Seth offers suggestions of insights that can be gained by asking the right questions. - Adam Kazwell
I want to start eating better. But, I also want to start growing a tastier tomato — regardless of how easy it is to pick, package, ship, or vend....it means making mindful decisions about the quality of any input that I check repeatedly — as well as any “stuff” I produce. * identify and destroy small-return bullshit; * shut off anything that’s noisier than it is useful; * make brutally fast decisions about what I don’t need to be doing; * avoid anything that feels like fake sincerity (esp. where it may touch money); * demand personal focus on making good things; * put a handful of real people near the center of everything. - Adam Kazwell
At least three things need to happen to bring the deleveraging process to an end: 1) Financial institutions and others need to sell the assets (which are distressed) they bought with borrowed money. 2) They need to pay off debt. 3) They need to rebuild their capital cushions. Deleveraging also feeds on itself in a way that can create a downward spiral: Trying to sell assets pushes down the assets' prices, which makes them harder to sell and leads firms to try to sell more assets. That, in turn, suppresses these firms' share prices and makes it harder for them to sell new shares to raise capital. Mr. Bernanke, as an academic, dubbed this self-feeding loop a "financial accelerator." - Adam Kazwell
"the more energy our members waste in finding the basics: help, search, login, submit, contact us. the less energy they have to actually enjoy our product. make products that delight and empower your users. waste = anything that doesn't delight or empower your users. it's important to temper hype with clear thinking, there will be many ill conceived uses of recently discovered aspects of computing (ajax, social networking, community filtering, badges, widgets, rss, viral apps) just because something works in one place, doesn't mean it has a user everyplace. am i investing in something that will last in the long run?" - Adam Kazwell
avoid thinking locally and specifically and practice thinking globally, objectively and abstractly, and increased self-control should follow - Adam Kazwell
Obama '08 is your official, comprehensive connection to the heart of Barack Obama and Joe Biden's campaign, giving you the tools you need to make an impact and stay in the know. Making a difference takes only moments using the Call a Friend feature. Want to do more? Find your local Obama for America HQ or look up local campaign events. Download Obama '08 from the App StoreYou'll have instant access to Barack's positions on important issues, as well as local and national campaign news as it happens. Photos and videos from the campaign trail are all here, too. - Adam Kazwell
"We just pushed a new design for Rososo. Our goal goal was to simplify and to make the experience more meaningful. We achieved simplification by removing the logo. We achieved meaningfulization by making the “fresh” bookmarks bigger and hiding the “stale” bookmarks." - Adam Kazwell
I didn’t pick up any more passengers that shift. I drove aimlessly, lost in thought. For the rest of that day, I could hardly talk. What if that woman had gotten an angry driver, or one who was impatient to end his shift? What if I had refused to take the run, or had honked once, then driven away? On a quick review, I don’t think that I have done anything more important in my life. We’re conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments. But great moments often catch us unaware - beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one. - Adam Kazwell
"The sheer number of experiences I could have is uncountable, breathtaking, and I'm sitting here refreshing my inbox. We live trapped in loops, reliving a few days over and over, and we envision only a handful of paths laid out ahead of us. We see the same things each day, we respond the same way, we think the same thoughts, each day a slight variation on the last, every moment smoothly following the gentle curves of societal norms. We act like if we just get through today, tomorrow our dreams will come back to us." - Adam Kazwell
“"When a set of sites grows too large to manage Friendfeed isn't the solution. It’s learning to prioritize and figuring out what’s worth it, and what can be safely ignored." - Rory Marinich”
