Tumbling Back Home

The bits of Internet goodness that get stuck in my teeth.

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"Your job isn't to be the best at everything. It's to be the best at the thing only you can do."

—iain

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"Here’s my pitch: live your damn life and don’t die hungry and full of regret." — Warren Ellis

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"Boredom is when you do the dishes, run the errand you’ve been putting off, respond to the text you’ve left on read. Boredom is when you bring a book to read on the subway or make small talk with the person in front of you in line about how slow the pharmacy is. Boredom is when you do the things that make you feel like you have life under control. Not being bored is why you always feel busy, why you keep “not having time” to take a package to the post office or work on your novel. You do have time—you just spend it on your phone. By refusing to ever let your brain rest, you are choosing to watch other people’s lives through a screen at the expense of your own." — Kate Lindsay

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"We’re not running out of noise, but we can always use more beauty." —Seth Godin

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This song is still so great. It slaps, some might say.

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It's my 17 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

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"This world remains full of wondrous new sights and sounds." —Warren Ellis

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"I think we really missed an opportunity a couple of years ago when we didn't call NFTs 'grift certificates'." —Wandering Shop

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RIP to one of the greatest to play the game, an amazing human, and a Florida boy to boot. Godpseed, Wakefield.

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I still can't believe this really happened.

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"If you don't quit, you might make it. If you quit, you definitely won't. And honestly, I think after all the years I’ve seen people make it and not make it, the only common denominator is that." — Seth Rogan

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Miss you already, Jimmy. You've been in the soundtrack of my life since I was a little kid in Miami.

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"Design is for humans, and needs to account for how people do behave, not how they should." — John Gruber

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“Everytime I worry about something I can’t control, I just made myself worse at what I’m trying to be.” - Mike McDaniel

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"The endless cycle of improvement means that every innovation that raises the average creates the conditions for a new sort of excellence." —Seth Godin in "Raising the bar"

This was in reference to the growth of AI, but it applies in so many ways. Seems the pertinent question is: are you complaining about the innovation or creating the new excellence?

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“Any successful style is a spell whose first victim is the wizard” — Clive James, as written in "Coltrane: The Story of a Sound" by Ben Ratliff

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“The point about unusual ideas has to be their proximity to madness.” —George Lois