A couple weeks ago a friend of mine recommended the new book by Cal Newport, “So Good They Can’t Ignore You,” which argues that the best and most satisfying careers are those where your passion for the job emerges only after you’ve developed distinctive skills for it — because distinctive skills enable you to do... Read More

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While on the subject of Apple, I thought it befitting to look back at the commencement speech Steve Jobs delivered at Stanford in 2005. [embedyt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc[/embedyt] I’m always struck by the story he tells about stumbling into that calligraphy class at Reed College, and how a decade later when he was integrating typefaces into the Mac,... Read More

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"It’s not about how many times you get knocked down; it’s about how many times you get back up." - Richard Tait, co-creator of Cranium

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"The idea wasn't to start a company. The idea was to get this product out to everyone who needed it." - Linus Liang, co-founder of Embrace

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"Pixar is unique in the way it balances the need for the artist to explore with the need to get things done." - Naomi Davidson, Pixar Animation Studios

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"In entertainment, people think success is binary: you're either Russell Peters or you’re working at Wendy’s. That’s just not true." - Rajiv Satyal, Comedian

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