Brandon

“For better or worse,” Castle writes, “the ferocious, liberating notion embedded in the early novel is that parents are there to be fooled and defied … that even the most venerated traditions exist to be broken with; that creative power is rightly vested in the individual rather than groups, in the young rather than the old; that thought is free. The assertion of individual rights ineluctably begins, symbolically and every other way, with the primal rebellion of the child against parent.”
― Julie Lythcott-Haims, How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success

“The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.”
― Eldridge Cleaver

“There’s a very strong belief at Google that if the product is better, people will use it anyway,” says Griffin. “You might not like not having support; you might want to talk to somebody. But are you going to stop using it? If we create better products, support isn’t a differentiating factor.”
― Steven Levy, In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

“Deming said, ’whenever there is fear, you get the wrong numbers”
― Nicole Forsgren, Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations