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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Ray Bradbury

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Peter Bogdanovich also decided to change the name of the film. While selecting music for the film, he heard the song It’s Only a Paper Moon (by Billy Rose, Yip Harburg, and Harold Arlen). Seeking advice from his close friend and mentor Orson Welles, Bogdanovich listed Paper Moon as a possible alternative. Welles responded:

— “That title is so good, you shouldn’t even make the picture, you should just release the title!”.

About Paper Moon‘s title, as seen on wikipedia.

Names and titles are powerful, some magic still works that way.

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Le Commandant Alias a passé la nuit chez le général à discuter logique pure. Ça ruine la vie de l’Esprit, la logique pure, Puis il s’est épuisé, sur la route, contre d’interminables embouteillages. Puis il a trouvé, en rentrant au Groupe, cent difficultés matérielles, de celles qui vous rongent peu à peu comme les mille effets d’un glissement de montagne que l’on ne saurait contenir.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Pilote de Guerre

Consultant and guru talk is always perfect, perfectly inside the limits of logic. Well, you know what it follows :-P

Distrust who runs before nasty reality enters scene. Should do a “distrust this post” post soon.

Back to Saint-Ex. Good thing (not much of a surprise) is I’m loving it. It doesn’t matter how piercing but humanist his quotes are. His books are a must.

Bad thing is my copy of Vol de Nuit is missing in action. Or I’ve never had one… I’m not sure anymore…

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Day has been shitty, week is gonna be worse.

First:

Now:

And I better don’t tell what happened in between. It doesn’t matter where you take it from… it’s where you take it to. Or where it takes you to.

By the way, clues to the original Vonnegut quote (think it’s his) will be much thanked.

Bonus track (my favourite mix):

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El vaso

Hay cuatro maneras de ver el vaso. Medio lleno si eres optimista, medio vacío si eres pesimista, medio vaso que sobra si eres un tipo racional y medio vaso por llenar si eres un emprendedor.

Marc Vidal, leído hace un rato aquí.

Llenemos pues los vasos para, algún día, brindar: ¡Por la destrucción (creativa) de todo lo que es!

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Transitioning to agile is difficult. Agile does make the issues transparent. It doesn’t make them easy to solve. At least they can see the problems.

See at Johanna’s.

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Anything for a… for love. Romance.

As seen on 15th century peasant romance comics.

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—Duncan. I’m… a prostitute.
—I’m… an editor.
—Yeah… why are you ok with it?
—Well, it’s just my job.

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Don’t just look for solutions. First remove the problem. At its root, and the root of its root, and…

Be ready for more than five whys. And reduce, go for what matters. Now.

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I don’t want to get any messages saying, “I am holding my position.” We are not holding a Goddamned thing. Let the germans do that. We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding onto anything, except the enemy’s ***.

General George S. Patton, Jr.

That’s a three-star general for you (well, take or add one or two).

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A monk told Joshu, “I have just entered the monastery. Please teach me.”
Joshu asked, “Have you eaten your rice porridge?
The monk replied, “I have eaten.”
Joshu said, “Then you had better wash your bowl.”
At that moment the monk was enlightened.

Found nozen, thanks to Leo.

Edudicado a una persona absolutamente anónima. :-P

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When I first read it, it was awesome because it talked about us (I was young, even more impressionable and still studying industrial engineering).

This time has been absolutely fascinating because it doesn’t talk at all about us (whatever us means around me now).

Or perhaps it talks. A little. ;-)

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Sometimes.
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Have it here.

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Productivity in 11 Words:

  1. One thing at a time.
  2. Most important thing first.
  3. Start now.

From Skelliewag. And yes, I know I shared it just days ago.

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This might lead one to suspect that in any competitive endeavor, if you can be modeled (“sand-tabled”, as Boyd referred to it) you aren’t using strategy at all and you can be defeated.

Chet Richards, Certain to win.

Hint: measurable doesn’t imply modelable.

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