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Chris Lavergne

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4,407 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“When I think back on the places I've lived, I now wonder this: I wonder if the real measure of 'home' is the degree to which you can leave it alone.”
— Meghan Daum, Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House
Tagged: Content, Moving Houses, Real Estate
“When I was disengaged, I didn't leave any real authority in place. In my absence, the company ticks along nicely; with the challenge of Buzzfeed and Vox, ticking along nicely is no longer enough. Even when I'm here, if I'm obsessed by something, other parts of our common project can spin off in unpredictable directions, causing me to overlook developing risks and opportunities. As Joel said, I am the company's greatest asset — and it's greatest liability. To be saved from myself, like many of us, I need partners in the fullest sense of the word, to take up the slack or keep me on focus. And I didn't have them.”
— Nick Denton, Observer.com
Tagged: Business, Buzzfeed, Delegation, Partnerships, Vox, The Importance of Partners
“I still believe that writers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
— Nick Denton, Observer.com
Tagged: Control, The Media, Writing, Journalism, Power of Words
“The natural form of online media is the exchange, not the blast. Tommy's ethos gives us the best chance of recapturing the honesty of blogs, before their spirit was sapped by the tastes of the Facebook masses. 'We put truths on the internet.' That's Tommy's motto. I can subscribe to it. Dauntingly, it's down to our writers to provide a constructive but critical voice in an American culture. And it's down to our product managers, designers and developers to encourage a similar tone in the discussions sparked by stories. ”
— Nick Denton, Observer.com
Tagged: Blogging, Facebook
“This company was founded by a gay man and two women. I have never been comfortable with the role of a traditional CEO. And for obvious reasons I have never been comfortable in a company dominated by territorial men. I hope I have made space for others who don't fit the mould. And I pray that my information networks are still good enough to identify those leaders too busy being capable to promote themselves. At Gawker, despite the reputation of our journalism, nice guys finish first. And women.”
— Nick Denton, Observer.com
Tagged: Gawker, Media Companies
“If we understand the matter correctly (something that must be assumed here) we can compel a person, or at least help him, to render an account of the ultimate meaning of his own actions.”
— Max Weber, The Vocation Lectures
Tagged: Direction, Identity, Management, Meaning
“It is entirely true and a fundamental fact of all history (though one we cannot explore further here) that the ultimate product of political activity frequently, indeed, as a matter of course, fails utterly to do justice to its original purpose and may even be a travesty of it.”
— Max Weber, The Vocation Lectures
Tagged: History, Politics, Theory and Practice, Unforeseen Consequences
“Impossible; for how many people did you know that refracted your own light to you?”
— Guy Montag, Fahrenheit 451
Tagged: Bridge, Communication, Communications, Light, Mirror Writing, Thought Catalog Producers
“So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless , hairless, expressionless . We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam. Even fireworks, for all their prettiness, come from the chemistry of the earth. Yet somehow we think we can grow, feeding on flowers and fireworks, without completing the cycle back to reality.”
— Professor Faber, Fahrenheit 451
Tagged: Books are hated., Hate Books, Simulacrum, Unreality
“Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them, at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”
— Professor Faber, Fahrenheit 451
Tagged: Books, Knowledge Storage