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Hi, I'm Matthias • I love music, a good laugh and a new pair of sneakers • I hate people who take life seriously • I craft interfaces and experiences with passion • You're looking at a backup of my thoughts. This tank is full of random things I witness and enjoy • Stay hungry. Stay foolish. Never settle.
7. February 2009 • 12h
“I mistrust all systemizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche - Nuff’ said!9. February 2009 • 23h
“Consensus == stupid” by Kathy Sierra
(via Creating Passionate Users)
14. February 2009 • 23h
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11. March 2009 • 0h
“To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.”
– Charles Bukowski19. April 2009 • 12h
“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.”
– Jim Morrison (via littlemiss) (via thresca)20. April 2009 • 10h
“You can’t help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn’t spell it right; but spelling isn’t everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn’t count”
– Winnie the Pooh20. April 2009 • 23h
“The simplest kind of unhappiness is that caused by poverty. People living in poverty become happier if they become richer—but the effect of increased wealth cuts off at a surprisingly low figure. The British economist Richard Layard, in his stimulating book “Happiness: Lessons from a New Science,” puts that figure at fifteen thousand dollars, and leaves little doubt that being richer does not make people happier. Americans are about twice as rich as they were in the nineteen-seventies but report not being any happier; the Japanese are six times as rich as they were in 1950 and aren’t any happier, either. Looking at the data from all over the world, it is clear that, instead of getting happier as they become better off, people get stuck on a “hedonic treadmill”: their expectations rise at the same pace as their incomes, and the happiness they seek remains constantly just out of reach.”
– Pursuing Happiness: The New Yorker (via standardgrey) (via brocatus)20. April 2009 • 23h
“If you want to be happy, don’t ever ask yourself if you are.”
– Pursuing Happiness: The New Yorker21. April 2009 • 23h
259. If it looks like rain, carry an umbrella. She'll thank you.
(via rulesformyunbornson)
I broke this rule a thousand times! I’ll try to mend my ways.
