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Recently, I started hearing more and more about something called Pinterest. The knee-jerk reaction was to dismiss it as useless, but then fear struck me. Fear that I was getting old, starting to accept habits as truths, and ceasing to learn new things.
Since then, I have been testing as many new web services as possible, trying hard to understand what makes them popular.
Change is accelerating, and I want to stay ahead of the curve.
Apple’s free engraving isn’t really free. Resell value goes down, increasing the lifetime cost of the products, while also increasing Apple’s inventory turnover rate for new products due to the decreased appeal of second hand, engraved products.
Increased goodwill towards the brand comes as a bonus.
Not a bad idea at all.
“This is a very noisy world, so, we have to be very clear what we want them to know about us.” — Steve Jobs
My Dearest,
I have tried to compose what might adequately capture what I’m feeling. Although I have written and rewritten this many times over, I have yet to succeed.
Time to time, I’m reminded of your presence; making my heart flutter briefly. When that happens, I pinch myself to check that I’m not dreaming. Are we really together? Slowly, this is becoming a daily occurrence.
Although we haven’t known each other long, it feels natural to be around you; I can be myself. Actually, years prior to today, I’d look at you, and think of you as some kind of unattainable goddess. Foolishly, I thought we could never be. However, the process of pursuing you, and finally attaining you, has taught me that very little in this world is unattainable.
You are truly beautiful. Dazzlingly decadent in nighttime, intoxicatingly exotic during day. Truly international, you also reflect the best of the East.
I thoroughly enjoy my time with you. But it also scares me, since time slips away too quickly when we’re together. As our paradoxical relationship unfolds, our separating line becomes finer and finer. In time, we become indistinguishable from one another. I become a part of you, and you a part of me. It will be impossible to tell when or how it happened, but I can’t wait for that moment.
Hong Kong, I hold you in my thoughts.
(Source: goddamnyourebeautiful)
We are in the beginning of the greatest change that humanity has ever undergone. There is no shock, no epoch-making incident-but then there is no shock at a cloudy daybreak. At no point can we say, here it commences, now, last minute was night and this is morning. But insensibly we are in the day. If we care to look we can foresee growing knowledge, growing order, and presently a deliberate improvement of the blood and character of the race. And what we can see and imagine gives us a. measure and gives us faith for what surpasses the imagination.
It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all that the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening. We cannot see, there is no need for us to see, what this world will be like when the day has fully come. We are creatures of the twilight. But it is out of our race and lineage that minds will spring, that will reach back to us in our littleness to know us better than we know ourselves, and that will reach forward fearlessly to comprehend this future that defeats our eyes. All this world is heavy with the promise of greater things, and a day will come, one day in the unending succession of days, when beings, beings who are now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon this earth as one stands upon a footstool, and shall laugh and reach out their hands amidst the stars.
H. G. Wells, 1902, The Discovery of the Future, Nature, 65, p. 326-331.
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” — Mohandas Gandhi
Cheap Willl Be Smart. Expensive Will Be Dumb.
“…skill is often necessary, but always insufficient” — neilk on Hacker News