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Three quotes for the day
1. "What happened in the last decade was a massive redistribution of wealth to people who did not create value, but simply moved assets around. You look at where we were in 1945 -- we were the only place in the world with skilled labor, with education, the rule of law, a middle class with the capacity to consume. Now we're not the center of the universe."
- Eliot Spitzer, former New York State governor, in the Times
2. "If it makes money and it's fun, that's terrific. If it loses money and it's fun, that's O.K. It's only not O.K. if it loses money and it's not fun."
- Restaurateur Ken Friedman in the Times (good philosophy for the organizer of any event, including Gel)
3. "The consumer thus pays for maximum possible complexity, unreliability, and expense to maintain while receiving the minimum possible convenience in return."
- Philip Greenspun, describing a new Toyota Camry on his blog
One can infer from Ken Friedman's quote that if it makes money and it's not fun, that's (at a minimum) O.K. too. This quote makes me think of your previous post titled, "How to create an experience that sells - and do you want that?"
Funny, I was going to ask how Friedman felt about the making money but not being happy . . . If it is true that it matters as much that you're happy or making money, then the quote doesn't actually mean all that much; basically that you should always be deriving a benefit from your work . . . something I'm sure we'd all agree with.