But I’ve realized that the people that I respect the most, the people who are doing great things, are people who care so much about what they do that they can’t stop. They are not unhealthy. There are those people who are unhealthy, but I’m talking about the people that care so much about what they do, that they go out of their way to have coffee and do interview projects [like now]. They care. They are not working too hard. They care about quality. I realized that this person was not recognizing the difference between someone who is a perfectionist and someone who deeply cares about quality. I think I have a bit of the perfectionist thing and that needs to go, but it can be an endearing quality. I just deeply care and I love that. What is nourishing about the world to me is that I love what I do. It took me a few years to realize that if I’m a healthy person and everything is in balance, I don’t need to curb that. Everything is just in balance. So that person, she tried to regulate me through this advice she gave me. But then I ended up reversing it, which I’m really happy about.

“The process of technological developments is like building a cathedral,” he said in an interview in 1990. “Over the course of several hundred years, new people come along and each lays down a block on top of the old foundations, each saying, ‘I built a cathedral.’

“Next month another block is placed atop the previous one. Then comes along an historian who asks, ‘Well, who built the cathedral?’ Peter added some stones here, and Paul added a few more. If you are not careful you can con yourself into believing that you did the most important part. But the reality is that each contribution has to follow onto previous work. Everything is tied to everything else.”

Publish quickly, edit at leisure, make the first version coherent.

Hilarious.

Nice post from @TrentWalton applying "you are what you eat" to work: (+1 for cool web font experiments) /via @shiflett

Advice that is less cheesy than normal coming from Mark Hurst