Majicman Notes

Success should always call for showing greater kindness, generosity, and justice; only people lost in the darkness treat it as an occassion for greater greed. Cyrus the Great Read more

For nothing is fixed, forever, forever, forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to… Read more

No matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty, your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire. To put it a bit more dramatically, the… Read more

I can’t tell you how much time is spent worrying about decisions that don’t matter. To just be able to make a decision and see what happens is tremendously empowering, but that means you have… Read more

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. Ernest Hemingway Read more

Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest. Given two people of approximately the same ability and one person who works ten percent more than the other, the latter will more than twice outproduce the former.… Read more

“You are a unique moment in the history of creation,” Vartan Gregorian told incoming freshman classes every year of his Brown presidency. “You have to decide what you want to do with your uniqueness. You… Read more

The Lindy Effect essentially states that the longer a non-perishable item has been around, the longer it’s likely to persist into the future.  The Lindy Effect was named after a New York deli and originally referenced the career… Read more

If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive. Dorothee Sölle on letting go Read more

On the first day’s drive to the set, he confided, “Whenever I start a film, I hear the child’s voice in my head singing, ‘We’re makin’ a movie, we’re makin’ a movie!’” I was already… Read more