Archive for November, 2008

Freedom - David Foster Wallace

Friday, November 28th, 2008

The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. That is real freedom. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the “rat race” - the [...]

Measuring everything - Jack Welch

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

Too often we measure everything and understand nothing.

Making as simple as possible - Albert Einstein

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.