We don’t really think it’s about reducing complexity. We think it’s about concealing complexity.
Dom Hofmann, co-founder of Vine.
Mountaintops inspire leaders, but valleys mature them.
Winston Churchill
Things come apart
Ego doesn't take pauses
Tim Cook is one of those rare people who stop and think before speaking. Standing in the same room with him I realized that he’s comfortable with silence as long as that silence is productive and appropriate. He’s not like other tech execs who ramble almost immediately and incoherently at any question lobbed at them, as if doing so will convince others they know everything about everything.
Tim Cook is a person who has confidence in his position as a leader, sans ego. Ego doesn’t take pauses. It’s rapid-fire. And it’s that confidence and lack of ego that allows him the time to examine the issues and questions at hand, no matter how lowly or silly others may think them, and address them appropriately.
Snow and glasses
kottke.org: The seven-minute workout
According to science, you can achieve the results of a long run and a visit to weight room by doing “12 exercises deploying only body weight, a chair and a wall.” And the whole thing only takes seven minutes.
“There’s very good evidence” that high-intensity interval training provides “many of…
More pictures, less words with Picture Cook, an upcoming diagrammatic recipe book.
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