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Thick Face, Black Heart continues to delight me. The recommendation came through an unlikely source, but it's really good.

Here's another quote:

"We are all programmed to judge success and winning in re…

Worry:

Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.

~Theodore N. Vail

Steven Pressfield:

A commonplace from Hollywood and the theater is, “All actors are children”—and its corollary, “All writers are children.” There’s more truth to this than most actors, writers, dancer…

Awesome logo designed by Salvador Dali himself:



I had no idea he'd designed it. But it sure has stood the test of time.

From Chin-Ning Chu's Thick Face, Black Heart:

If you have a large, perfect diamond and you take it to the village marketplace, you will have a tremendously hard time trying to convince the junk peddler…

Great news from Business Insider:

Why people are quitting is the most surprising finding of all: it's because they're not happy and simply do not like their jobs (65%). Other driving forces: needing a …

Eileen Fisher in Inc. Magazine.:

I have been in therapy forever -- I would not have this company if it weren't for that.

I used to think there were two kinds of people: Those who are successful, and tho…

Came across this quote from Marianne Williamson's book A Return to Love:

We think we're powerful because of what we've achieved rather than because of what we are. So we're caught in a Catch-22: we fee…

I love Exceptional for tracking Rails errors, but their DelayedJob integration wasn't working for me, probably because I'm using the version from collectiveidea, because it seems to be the most popula…

I spent my Saturday throwing together a Pig script which will parse the Cloudfront Logs and spit out the bandwidth consumed per object.

It took me a while to get the details and synax right, so I figur…