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Maria’s Header Image on Facebook, and a Good Rule to Live By “This should be a cardinal rule of the Internet (and of being human): If you don’t have the patience to read something, don’t have the hubris to comment on it.”
Tools of Titans
Timothy Ferriss
So the mošt complex and interesting things in the Universe are happening right at the end of chaos, just before order is destroyed. It is here that we find taps (or leaky gutters) dripping with strange and exotic rhythms, whirlpools within whirlpools spinning about in wonderful patterns, and the extraordinary complexity of the kidney, or the multiply folded and refolded near-fractal surface of the cerebral cortex of the human brain. So far we have looked at order, and we have looked at chaos. It is time now to look at the edge of chaos, where complexity lives.
Deep Simplicity
John Gribbin
Much of what we build at AWS is based on listening to customers. It’s critical to ask customers what they want, listen carefully to their answers, and figure out a plan to provide it thoughtfully and quickly (speed matters in business!). No business could thrive without that kind of customer obsession. But it’s also not enough. The biggest needle movers will be things that customers don’t know to ask for. We must invent on their behalf. We have to tap into our own inner imagination about what’s possible.
Invent and Wander
Walter Isaacson and Jeff Bezos
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