Quotes and Snippets

... that Dorian Benkoil finds from around the digiverse.

Leaders and Bosses

Those who don’t know the difference between being a boss and being a leader are destined to be neither.

you don’t have to necessarily know how to install Apache or solder a chip. All you need is a desire to make something be a way that it should or can be.

—notes on “hackers” (thanks to @jayrosen_nyu)

“Tumblove” newsweek: markcoatney: alittlespace: I can get behind Tumbstruck… “Reblogged (and It Feels So Good)”“Tumbeau” “Tumblust”“Tumblr Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry”  The Tumblrcrush: We can see the Times Style story now. In which case, send us your Tumblr love stories: nwktumblr (at) gmail

“Tumblove”

newsweek:

markcoatney:

alittlespace:

I can get behind Tumbstruck…

“Reblogged (and It Feels So Good)”
“Tumbeau” 
“Tumblust”
“Tumblr Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry” 

The Tumblrcrush: We can see the Times Style story now. In which case, send us your Tumblr love stories: nwktumblr (at) gmail

Once you start depending on metrics, it can become much harder to make intuitive decisions that can’t be measured.

Doesn’t Sound Like a “Hotel” to Me

newsweek:

“Her cell was 10 by 14 feet. It had no bed. The lights were always on. Neon lights. It was part of the torture.”

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Ramin Setoodeh, in a compelling narrative about the American hikers who’ve spent 775 days in Iran’s most notorious prison, accused of espionage. On Monday, Iran said the hikers would be released. Today they said the release is not imminent.

“Like staying in a hotel” is how the Iranian president characterized it. And It looks now like it might not happen.

I follow the 3/3 rule, whereby I speak with someone no more than three times, for not more than three minutes on each occasion, freely offering tips, exploring another company’s branding or directly helping them, before I ask that person for some business. When I do the asking, I send the prospective customer a closing script or a post to indicate how I can help further.

you really don’t have the hustle unless you’re the owner. If you aren’t the owner, you’ll never have the passion that the owner has. For you, did that passion diminish once you sold? It did. It’s like a switch in your brain. The moment you sell, that switch goes off – [then] the light dims slowly. That’s what has happened with every entrepreneur I know.