The Dichotomy of Control
"No matter where you go, there you are" - Buckaroo Banzai (Peter Weller) in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.
leadership
A collection of 22 issues
Espresso Shots 11-25-24
"I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time." - Steven Wright
Espresso Shots 11-10-24
"I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell." - Christopher Walken (as fictional music producer Bruce Dickinson on SNL)
Espresso Shots 11-3-24
"If it wasn’t for the coffee, I’d have no identifiable personality whatsoever." - David Letterman
Espresso Shots 10-20-24
"As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?" ― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
Your Goal Broke the System
"Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had to learn a certain amount about it. I'm not a baker, though I've had to learn how to do it. I'm sort of a general cook." - Julia Child
Espresso Shots 10-6-24
"Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes." — Maggie Kuhn, The Socratic Method
Espresso Shots 9-22-24
"I am not an optimist. I’m a very serious possibilist." - Hans Rosling
Espresso Shots 9-14-24
"Mornings are for coffee and contemplation." - Jim Hopper, Stranger Things
The Board, Revisited
"You want to get out of the hole? First you’re going to have to put down the shovel." -Rick Dicker, Incredibles 2
Fixed Growth
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.” - Oogway, Kung Pu Panda
Firestarters
"A blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it." - Marcus Aurelius.
Maximum Viscosity
“There is rarely any joy in a frictionless space, so find your inner viscosity.” - Richard Siken, Crush
The Curse of Meh
"Beware the lollipop of mediocrity; lick it once and you’ll suck forever." - Brian Wilson, Beach Boys
When to Fold 'Em
"Every gambler knows / That the secret to survivin' / Is knowin' what to throw away / And knowin' what to keep" - Kenny Rogers, The Gambler
Non Verba
"Life can be so much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call 'life' was made up by people who were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use." - Steve Jobs
Inefficiency Multipliers
“It's easy to confuse 'what is' with 'what ought to be,' especially when 'what is' has worked out in your favor." - Tyrion Lannister, Game of Thrones
The Arena
"Strength and honor." - Maximus, Gladiator
Leaving Things Better
"You’ll have bad times, but it’ll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren’t paying attention to." – Robin Williams, Good Will Hunting
Surface v Depth
"I learned that just beneath the surface there's another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as a kid, but I couldn't find the proof. It was just a kind of feeling." - David Lynch
Random Acts
"You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you're going to take. That's it." ― Jordan B. Peterson
Admit You're Wrong
"No one ever made a difference by being like everybody else." – P.T. Barnum, from The Greatest Showman