You must choose between pain or drudgery.
— Douglas Coupland
Cawi and Enoy reunited after 7 years—in Hollywood! So surreal…
Spent most of last week re-synching my body clock with this side of the international dateline’s 24hour cycle. Kept waking up at 3am—and finding myself at work by 7. Horrors! Finally clicked back to UTC+8 over the weekend. Now I’m finally, 100% back!
But if she was herself only at lunch, who was she the rest of the time? Was she someone else? Were those, the majority of hours, nothing? Or were they the truth?
— Aurelie Sheehan in
The Anxiety of Everyday Objects. This sounds eerily similar to what went on inside my head when I worked at xxx. I kept telling myself it’s only a day job, what you do doesn’t define
who you are. A job is for paying the bills, right? Fun is for after five! So I did my best to do the responsible thing—that is, until I finally decided life’s too short for this shit. But anyway (sorry for the rant ;) all I meant to say was, I loved this book! Am keeping on the lookout for more of her stuff.
Innovation is super fragile. It’s very easy to kill. We need a stubborn, rebellious attitude.
— Douglas Merrill, Google CIO (quoted in last month’s Fast Company)
The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
— Stephen King