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Famous Speeches: A List of the Greatest Speeches of All Time

Nice collection by James Clear. Reading material.

...Point off for incorrectly hyphenating "all time" in the title, though. 😏

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Creative Spark: Dustin Lance Black

Short video about Dustin's writing process: he does a shit-ton of outlining on cards ahead of time, which I think is what Joe wanted me to see an example of.

(via Joe Nassise)

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Video: My Philosophy for a Happy Life | Sam Berns | TEDxMidAtlantic

I'm glad I took the 12 minutes. Don't cheat yourself out of watching the video, but I'm collecting these bullets to remind myself:

  1. Be okay with what you ultimately can't do... because there's so much you CAN do
  2. Surround yourself with people you want to be around
  3. Keep moving forward
  4. Never miss a party if you can help it

Truer words, and all that. 😄

(via Tim Ferriss's "5-Bullet Friday")

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Brent Simmons: You Choose

Brent Simmons, creator of NetNewsWire (which I'm quite happily using—can't wait for the iOS version!) on the whole reason I've wanted to have this site:

You choose the web you want. But you have to do the work.

A lot of people are doing the work. You could keep telling them, discouragingly, that what they’re doing is dead. Or you could join in the fun.

I'm in. How about you?

(via @manton and Brent's blog itself)