Squibs

With deep introspection, you might be able to get a glimpse of your intentions, but who we really are is not our intentions but the choices we’ve made. The choices we make in the future will be influenced by the choices we’ve made in the past, and who we will be in life is the sum of our choices. So to find out who “you” are, focus not on your intentions but on how to interpret your behaviors. -Paraphrasing Sheena Iyengar

Art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. -Seth Godin

Any form of art is a species of exploration and transgression.

The danger of optimization is that you’re spending your best energy on optimization, not creation. The office is designed for “work”, not productivity. Work can be defined as “anything you’d rather not be doing.” Productivity is a different matter. –Scott Adams

Marketers must choose to either try to make the customer smarter or dumber.

Avoid terms like “honestly”, “truthfully”, or “if I were you”—they almost always have the opposite of the intended effect.

The single most important diagnostic question for creativity in an organization is ‘what happens when people fail?’

We currently measure intelligence by excluding the vast majority of information processing taking place on an implicit level.

I suspect that things like flow and structure are less important in writing than we think. Readers don’t need to have a clear picture of the author’s logical structure. Rather, they just need to have taken away some scattered insights. (Kind of like these posts.)