“Ironically, the only way to move forward at full speed is to slow down and support diversity, embrace it, let it be, even celebrate it.”
“The more inclusive you can be, the more powerfully you move.” — Dave Winer
http://scripting.com/davenet/1999/09/12/anEndToTheUberoperatingSys.html
“By my definition, originality involves introducing and advancing an idea that’s relatively unusual within a particular domain, and that has the potential to improve it.”
The faults in defaults. “To get Firefox or Chrome, you have to demonstrate some resourcefulness and download a different browser. Instead of accepting the default, you take a bit of initiative to seek out an option that might be better. And that act of initiative, however tiny, is a window into what you do at work.”
“The hallmark of originality is rejecting the default and exploring whether a better option exists.”
“Regardless of political ideologies, when a candidate seemed destined to win, people liked him more. When his odds dropped, they liked him less.”
“Entrepreneurs who kept their day jobs had 33 percent lower odds of failure than those who quit.”
“Having a sense of security in one realm gives us the freedom to be original in another.”
“The biggest barrier to originality is not idea generation—it’s idea selection.”
“When it comes to idea generation, quantity is the most predictable path to quality.”
“Our intuitions are only accurate in domains where we have a lot of experience.”
“Power involves exercising control or authority over others; status is being respected and admired.”
“To form alliances with opposing groups, it’s best to temper the cause, cooling it as much as possible. Yet to draw allies into joining the cause itself, what’s needed is a moderately tempered message that is neither too hot nor too cold, but just right.”
“In general, we tend to be overconfident about our own invulnerability to harm.”
Some lessons on groupthink. “The evidence suggests that social bonds don’t drive groupthink; the culprits are overconfidence and reputational concerns.”
“Bridgewater has prevented groupthink by inviting dissenting opinions from every employee in the company.”
The positive power of negative thinking. “Most people assume it’s better to be a strategic optimist than a defensive pessimist. Yet Norem finds that although defensive pessimists are more anxious and less confident in analytical, verbal, and creative tasks, they perform just as well as strategic optimists.”
— Adam Grant, Originals How Non-Conformists Move The World
“Politics is a small group of mostly powerless people talking about each other.” — Dave Winer
http://scripting.com/liveblog/users/davewiner/2016/01/03/0781.html
“I suspect the biggest source of moral taboos will turn out to be power struggles in which one side only barely has the upper hand. That’s where you’ll find a group powerful enough to enforce taboos, but weak enough to need them.”
“Great work tends to grow out of ideas that others have overlooked, and no idea is so overlooked as one that’s unthinkable.”
“Whatever the reason, there seems a clear correlation between intelligence and willingness to consider shocking ideas. This isn’t just because smart people actively work to find holes in conventional thinking. I think conventions also have less hold over them to start with. You can see that in the way they dress.”
“The most important thing is to be able to think what you want, not to say what you want. ”
“When people are bad at math, they know it, because they get the wrong answers on tests. But when people are bad at open-mindedness they don’t know it. In fact they tend to think the opposite.”
“Instead of being part of the mob, stand as far away from it as you can and watch what it’s doing. And pay especially close attention whenever an idea is being suppressed. ”
“How can you see the wave, when you’re the water? Always be questioning. That’s the only defence. What can’t you say? And why?”
http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html