Seth
Seth
Seth; placed; appointed"), in Judaism, Christianity, Mandaeism, and Islam, was the third son of Adam and Eve and brother of Cain and Abel, who were the only other of their children mentioned by name in the Tanakh. According to Genesis 4:25, Seth was born after Abel's murder, and Eve believed God had appointed him as a replacement for Abel...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth16 September 1962
CountryCanada
pressure blowing-it loses
Success brings with it the fear of blowing it. With more to lose, there's more pressure not to lose it.
opportunity people giving
Too often, we don't give people the opportunity to fill in the blanks.
best-effort worth-waiting-for chinese-proverb
If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.
people pay copying
Are you copying others? People won't pay extra for that. You won't be followed for that.
zuckerberg difficult-choices way
Mostly, the best way to be the next Mark Zuckerberg is to make difficult choices.
people way different
You don't become indispensable merely because you are different. But the only way to become indispensable is to be different. That's because if you're the same, so are plenty of other people.
progress guessing foundation
Trust is precious and easily wasted, and guessing is a lousy foundation for future progress.
mistake thinking goal
I think if your goal is for everything to be okay, that's a mistake. To achieve that goal, the only obstacle you'd have to face tomorrow is to eliminate all risk ... I've made the decision that I'm never trying to make everything okay. I'm trying for there to be more loose ends, not fewer loose ends.
choices given picks
Everyone picks the best one when given a choice.
opportunity play dumb
Faced with the opportunity to become the category of one, we almost always hesitate, almost always compromise, almost always dumb it down to play it a little bit safer
emotional labor
Do the emotional labor of working on things that others fear.
data iphone doing-your-best
If you're working with a spreadsheet or a thread of correspondence or a set of data, I'm not sure you're doing your best work if you're doing it on an iPhone.
art book people
The only people who get paid what they're worth are people who don't follow the instruction book, who create art, who are innovative, who work without a map.
culture pessimistic thanks
Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don't like change.