Squibs

It's never been true that the best businesses are built by MBAs with reams of data. There's nothing wrong with thinking about market need, it just should never be primary.

"Crowdsourcing" is a terrible word. People don't work for free, they have fun for free.

Medicine is mostly communication: pixie-dust, white coat, the appearance of certainty.

The lesson of placebos is that truth and lies are not as far apart as we'd like to think they are.

The most-emailed TED talks are rational ideas. Most favorited are emotional ideas. Most commented are actions.

Complexity = system with components that interact with one another dissapatively (using energy) and usually do unexpected (emergent) things.
Simplicity = reliable, predictable, repeatable.

Perfection in design is nothing more to take away.

Making friends is the transition from (1) awareness of opportunity to (2) surface contact (small talk) to (3) mutuality.

Fear of failure makes a man afraid of competition, of changing his methods, or of doing anything which might change his condition. -Henry Ford