January 2012
3 posts
“all we have is words;”
December 2011
12 posts
“It’s all about perspective. The sinking of the Titanic was a miracle to...”
– internets
8 Speechwriting Lessons You Can Learn from... →
You can make your speechwriting sing by learning lessons from songwriters… apply these eight songwriting techniques…
Triad
Refrain
Cadence
Harmony
Rhythm
Rhyme
Echo
Sound Effects
November 2011
15 posts
“It takes as little as $4 worth of steel to make the world’s most notorious...”
– John Zapolski: Healing Africa With Cuff Links Made From AK-47s - Forbes
On Leaving Twitter →
“[T]he relationship between parental education and children’s achievement has...”
– Stanford study exposes the new achievement gap in education – the gap between the rich and the poor is double that between whites and blacks
“Desire is desire wherever you go. The sun will not bleach it, nor the tide wash...”
“Trust me, it’s paradise. This is where the hungry come to feed.
For...”
WatchI want to fly over the rainbow so high.
“These days however, fame is more easily obtained. Anyone with enough money and a...”
– Dr. Ducky Mallard, NCIS
The Types of People I Wanna Work With At My... →
10 Things Entrepreneurs Don’t Learn in College →
…. But one of these days when the scars of college go away and I truly learn how to think. I might have better comebacks for these people. Or if I truly learn, I would learn not to care at all.
October 2011
9 posts
“Picasso was a jerk. So were Tolstoy and Beethoven.
So was Michelangelo, I bet,...”
– The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs
1 tag
Probably there's a Steve Jobs in all of us?
I was not able to stop my tears, for the first time in my life; I cried.
For a stranger; who taught us all; how to live and die.
For a pirate who commanded the navy ship
the man who bought the romance back to the word ‘death’.
I’ve never met him, neither touched anything he’s created, but his departure bought tears in my eyes, for the first time.
Probably he was my...
I’m Comic Sans, Asshole [ Comic Sans responds to... →
Listen up. I know the shit you’ve been saying behind my back. You think I’m stupid. You think I’m immature. You think I’m a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font. Well think again, nerdhole, because I’m Comic Sans, and I’m the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes fucking Gutenberg.
You don’t like that your coworker used me on that note about stealing her yogurt from the break room...
“One of the best pieces of advice I ever got, back when I was 23 and newly out of...”
– Figure Out Who’s On Your Team
[ Mom told me this when I was a 5 year old kid…! ]
“Revenue is Sexy!”
“And this made me think. People ask me who inspires me. This question often...”
– Caterina.net» Blog Archive » Make things
Every Winner Is A Loser. →
In reality, it’s an escape. In reality, the weird kid becomes a superstar breakdancer because he doesn’t have anything else to do where he could feel good. He doesn’t have friends to go out into the woods with to drink beer and try to feel up girls. He doesn’t have the opportunity to waste his time doing all the shiftless things kids usually spend their time doing. So he breakdances. And because...
September 2011
9 posts
Dekko's Investor Pitch to Justin Timberlake →
How To attract Justin Timberlake: Here’s the Pitch Dekko used to snag The Celebrity Investor
Usually hobo-spiders don’t go for dinner dates, no?
8 tags
August 2011
45 posts
“One of Steve Jobs’ most devastating talents is in knowing when he is right.”
– Being Right | TechCrunch