Corazon

“Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“Creating in the moment: build quickly and improve constantly, without waiting for permission or for proof that you have the right idea.”
― Joi Ito

“We imagine we’ll hear history when it calls. When it doesn’t, we return to our daily lives, our moral mettle still intact. But maybe history doesn’t call, or maybe you have to be listening closely to hear it. To prioritize diversity over perceived merit—the colorblind assessment of ability that has never really been colorblind at all—is to recognize that strategic imperatives can’t be the sole benchmark by which we distribute society’s prizes. There’s an increasing sense—among the millennials who fill our lecture halls, but out in the rougher world of cubicles and delivery vans and hospital waiting rooms as well—that it’s not enough to be right, or profitable, or talented. You must also be just. It’s”
― Joi Ito, Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future

“You don’t need to own anything anymore,” he says. “Not a factory, not a warehouse, not even an office.” In other words, Casey allows a company to move the atoms offshore. What’s left? “You need an idea, and you need to be able to market it. That’s it.”
― Joi Ito, Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future