Nicholas Martini: Archive

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Proximity breeds complacency. …

Absence makes people try harder to connect. …

Leaders of virtual teams make a better use of tools. …

Leaders of far-flung teams maximize the time their teams spend together. …

” —Why Remote Workers Are More (Yes, More) Engaged (via helloshauna)

Love This! Live by these beliefs..

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“If you’re a short-term thinker you’d think so, but we’re long-term thinkers. We’re about being in business for the long haul and keeping the team together over the long haul. I would never trade a short-term burst for a long-term decline in morale. That happens a lot in the tech business: They burn people out and get someone else. I like the people who work here too much. I don’t want them to burn out. Lots of startups burn people out with 60, 70, 80 hours of work per week. They know that both the people or the company will flame out or be bought or whatever, and they don’t care, they just burn their resources. It’s like drilling for as much oil as you possibly can. You can look at people the same way.” —My respect for Jason Fried never seems to stop rising. I love his thoughts/approach to running a business. Check out this interview he did on Fast Company. (via jwphillips)

Jason is the man!

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“True elegance has just one rule: simplicity.” —Luciano Barbera (via helloshauna)

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“The Millennial wants to tell people not just ‘I’ve made it,’ but also ‘I’m a tech person.’ ” Smartphones compete against cars for young people’s big-ticket dollars, since the cost of a good phone and data plan can exceed $1,000 a year. But they also provide some of the same psychic benefits—opening new vistas and carrying us far from the physical space in which we reside. “You no longer need to feel connected to your friends with a car when you have this technology that’s so ubiquitous, it transcends time and space.” —The Cheapest Generation - The Atlantic (via courtenaybird)

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nevver:

Wearing glasses without lenses makes you look like an asshole

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“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.” —John Lennon (via kari-shma)

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“The moral of the story is that the qualities that make Twitter interesting — its mix of conversation, discovery, and one-to-many communication — are direct consequences of its centralized architecture. Without the centralization you can still have something interesting, but it’s a different thing.” —Dan Wineman (via fred-wilson)

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“Everything is a remix” —(via peternyc)

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helloshauna:

This is great.

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Play

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“Curiosity, creativity, discovery and wonder; they aren’t traits of youth, they’re traits of learning. If you want to feel younger and you want to replicate the conditions of youth, do that.” —Benjamin Salka (via hapa-nings)

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Jay Large - Jay Z Remix

Jay-Z Remix with sweet beats..
http://soundcloud.com/jay-large/jay-large-jay-z-remix

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Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

” —

that man had a way with words

Winston Churchill (via terezan)

Aug 01, 201243 notes

“Many people spend their entire lives doing things they don’t really care for” and “endure their lives” says reknowned creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson in a talk for the School of Life on finding our purpose and following our passion. Robinson—who is known for speaking out against our highly standardized, one-size-fits-all education system that follows a “linear mode of production” and steers workers toward filling slots at companies so our economy can “beat China”—says the problem with this system is that humans are hard wired to use our imaginations and produce new things. When we find ourselves doing things we aren’t passionate about, we are, unsurprisingly, pretty miserable.” —Why Schools Should Help Students Find Their Passion - Education - GOOD (via infoneer-pulse)

Aug 01, 2012186 notes

Nicholas Martini

August 2012

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