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Curiosity: “I wonder what would happen if …”
Imagination: “Gee, wouldn’t it be cool if … ?”
Drive: “I will not accept ‘no.’ There has got to be a better way!”
Hacking Work
Bill Jensen and Josh Klein
Public speech is easily reduced to an exercise in caricature, confected and boring, with the volume set too high. Amid this vast ado about nothing, it is little wonder that a decline in the standard of rhetoric is declared. But it is an illusion, and if public speech is boring the proper response is to be thankful.
When They Go Low, We Go High
Philip Collins
And that slightly giddy, unmoored feeling that developed after clicking through these narratives would follow me out into the real world, making me hyperaware of the inner worlds lurking behind the sea of faces around me.
This Bakerloo Line Train Will Not Stop at 1996
The LiB team
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