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Personally, I'd love to see more stuff on life in non-startups. It's good to see both, and there's a lot of stuff about startups here (understandably), so getting some other posts to balance it would be great IMHO.

> (Most) Screw ups are OK

Red Whittaker once told me "people remember you for your successes, not for your failures." People remember Paul McCartney as a member of the Beatles, and maybe a little for Wings, but not for any of the crap he's put out. They remember a director's good movies, not the bombs (unless they're really spectacular, of course.)




"If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done."

Ludwig Wittgenstein


You caught my attention with that one: it sounded like a cuckoo quote. I don't think of Wittgenstein and silliness as exactly hanging out together. However, it turns out to be genuine and there's a related one to boot:

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein)




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