“What I love about the consumer market, that I always hated about the enterprise market, is that we come up with a product, we try to tell everybody about it, and every person votes for themselves. They go ‘yes’ or ‘no,’ and if enough of them say ‘yes,’ we get to come to work tomorrow. That’s how it works. It’s really simple. With the enterprise market, it’s not so simple. The people that use the products don’t decide for themselves, and the people that make those decisions sometimes are confused. We love just trying to make the best products in the world for people and having them tell us by how they vote with their wallets whether we’re on track or not.”

– Steve Jobs, June 1, 2010

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May 17, 2013

“As the details about the bombings in Boston unfold, it’d be easy to be scared. It’d be easy to feel powerless and demand that our elected leaders do something — anything — to keep us safe.

It’d be easy, but it’d be wrong. We need to be angry and empathize with the victims without being scared. Our fears would play right into the perpetrators’ hands — and magnify the power of their victory for whichever goals whatever group behind this, still to be uncovered, has. We don’t have to be scared, and we’re not powerless. We actually have all the power here, and there’s one thing we can do to render terrorism ineffective: Refuse to be terrorized.”

\- Bruce Schneier, [“The Boston Marathon Bombing: Keep Calm and Carry On”](http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/04/the-boston-marathon-bombing-keep-calm-and-carry-on/275014/), *The Atlantic*

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April 16, 2013

“We found in all of our research studies that the signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change; the signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency.”
– Jim Collins, Great by Choice

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February 26, 2013

Holiday Reading

There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair. I hope, sirs, you can understand our legitimate and unavoidable impatience. You express a great deal of anxiety over our willingness to break laws. This is certainly a legitimate concern. Since we so diligently urge people to obey the Supreme Court’s decision of 1954 outlawing segregation in the public schools, at first glance it may seem rather paradoxical for us consciously to break laws. One may well ask: “How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?” The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that “an unjust law is no law at all.

\- [“Letter from a Birmingham Jail”](http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html), Martin Luther King, Jr.

When I was in eleventh grade, AP History fell the same period as jazz band. So though I play jazz trumpet fairly well, my American history knowledge is woefully incomplete. In the years since, I’ve tried to piece things together on my own. But until today, I really knew MLK’s writing only through various heard snippets of his “I Have a Dream” speech.

This morning, however, I read through his ‘Letter from a Birmingham Jail’. If you haven’t read the piece in its entirety yourself, take ten minutes on this holiday day to do so. It’s a great window into King’s mind, an excellent snapshot of America at the time, and a clear reminder of why he very much deserves a national holiday in his honor.

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January 21, 2013

“It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction.” – Henry Ward Beecher

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December 27, 2012

“The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.” – Thomas A Edison

“Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.” – Maimonides

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December 15, 2012

“Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.” – Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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November 30, 2012

Two monks traveled together down a muddy road in heavy rain.

They came upon a beautiful girl in a silk kimono, unable to cross.

“Come,” said Tanzan to the girl. He lifted her up and carried her over the mud.

Eido said nothing. But by nightfall, he could no longer restrain himself. “We monks do not touch women,” he told Tanzan. “Especially not young, beautiful ones! It is dangerous. Why did you do that?”

“I left the girl on the side of the road,” said Tanzan. “Are you still carrying her?”

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November 19, 2012

“The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”
― Marcus Aurelius

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“We have seen a huge increase in female interest,” says Joshua Newman, CrossFit NYC co-owner and trainer. “In the beginning, we were 90% male, 10% female, but our new members seem to be about 50-50.” Newman says CrossFit NYC’s initial coaching staff was all male, but they’ve hired several female coaches over the past year.

Time Magazine, “Strong vs. Skinny”

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November 4, 2012