Majicman Notes

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the… Read more

Please understand there is no pessimism in this house and we are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist. Queen Victoria  https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victoria-queen-of-United-Kingdom/Accession-to-the-throne Read more

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.  Orwell… Read more

In grad school, I specialized in adult psychopathology and forensics. One key learning from my time in forensics was about self-defense: if someone tries to kidnap you, your best chance is to resist right away.… Read more

Design is all about problem-solving and creative action. To improve your design skills, you have to develop competence in four key areas: thinking, learning, doing, and feeling. By maintaining curiosity and keeping an open mind,… Read more

Focus is not the sort of thing you aspire to … or you decide on Monday. It’s something you do every minute. What focus means is saying no to something that you, with every bone… Read more

A garden offers the opposite of the disembodied uncertainties of writing. It’s vivid to all the senses, it’s a space of bodily labor, of getting dirty in the best and most literal way, an opportunity… Read more

One day you will wake up & there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now. Paulo Coelho Read more

The secret is that everything is always on the line. The more present we are at practice, the more present we will be in competition, in the boardroom, at the exam, the operating table, the… Read more

Colpo di fulmine: Love at first sight! But it literally means a lightning strike. So it’s like you were struck by love! It’s as if love struck you unexpectedly and even as powerfully as a… Read more