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“Steve Jobs gave a small private presentation about the iTunes Music Store to some independent record label people. My favorite line of the day was when people kept raising their hand saying, "Does it do [x]?", "Do you plan to add [y]?". Finally Jobs said, "Wait wait — put your hands down. Listen: I know you have a thousand ideas for all the cool features iTunes could have. So do we. But we don't want a thousand features. That would be ugly. Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.”
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“The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies; frequent coffeehouses and other liquid networks; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle; reinvent. Build a tangled bank.”
― Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
― Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
Alissa’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Alissa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,149 books
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51 friends
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10 books
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28 friends
434 books
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162 books
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29 friends
695 books
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70 friends
66 books
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18 friends
351 books
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45 friends
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Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Classics, Contemporary, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, History, Memoir, Music, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, and Self help
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