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From Andrew Warner's mixergy. Highlights:

• "No. It says I'm gonna fail a lot. I'm gonna have a lot of bad ideas. People are going to laugh at me. I’m going to do things that don't make any sense all the way to the edges and then I'm gonna fail again. That's OK. I'm willing to do all those things because my study of every artist in history is that's the way it works. That's the map."
• "What did Issac Asmov do? He wrote four hundred books in his career, right? Fortie times as many as me. How did he do it? Every morning he woke up at 6:00 and he wrote till 10 A.M. and then he was done, right? Robert Parker just died, he wrote dispenser novels. Everyday, day in and day out he wrote five pages, that's all, five pages. That's how he beat the resistance. He can spend as much time as he wants at the keyboard but he cannot get up until five pages are done. There's a million ways to beat the resistance, after all it's a hundred thousand years old it's very primitive. You just got to decide that that's your job. Once you decide that that's the job you'll figure out how to beat the resistance. If I tell you how I beat it, it will not help you. You have to beat it your way."
• "your ideas. That's where power lies. That's where joy lies. Now. Unlike ten or fifteen years ago. That if we think about something like Cory Doctorow who's written fifty five thousand posts on Boing-Boing, in ten years, right? Cory's one of the most powerful people in the world. Not because we all mail him gifts. He'll never have trouble making a living, ever. But anywhere Cory goes, in the world, he has a bed to sleep. He has someone who'll shuttle him somewhere, him somewhere. He has people who will believe him when we says something. Cory can say, I hate Canadian copyright law, everyone go write to this guy, and we do. But, why? What happened? Well he gave to us relentless, persistent, over the top generosity day after day after day with nothing expected in return."

via Hacker News, a wheel with electronically adjustable stability settings: