Len Edgerly

“Revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new technologies—it happens when society adopts new behaviors.”
― Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

“There is no last page to the poetry of John Ashbery. You will have had the experience; you can always have it again.”
― John Ashbery, Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works

“I very frequently get the question: 'What's going to change in the next 10 years?' And that is a very interesting question; it's a very common one. I almost never get the question: 'What's not going to change in the next 10 years?' And I submit to you that that second question is actually the more important of the two -- because you can build a business strategy around the things that are stable in time. ... [I]n our retail business, we know that customers want low prices, and I know that's going to be true 10 years from now. They want fast delivery; they want vast selection. It's impossible to imagine a future 10 years from now where a customer comes up and says, 'Jeff I love Amazon; I just wish the prices were a little higher,' [or] 'I love Amazon; I just wish you'd deliver a little more slowly.' Impossible. And so the effort we put into those things, spinning those things up, we know the energy we put into it today will still be paying off dividends for our customers 10 years from now. When you have something that you know is true, even over the long term, you can afford to put a lot of energy into it.”
― Jeff Bezos

“To ripen into an elder, into a being that is more than simply elderly and more than only self, is a deliberate, thoughtful, sustained choice that arises from the intention to see things as they are.”
― Kathleen Dowling Singh, The Grace in Aging: Awaken as You Grow Older