Chill, man. Totally groovy, flowing with things, living life, bein' there. Abiding like The Dude. It's just this...kinda thing you can't describe, man, it's just so cool, yeah, cool. We're cool. Everything is cool. The universe is cool.
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Jason Fried, the co-founder of Basecamp, once learned a very good lesson from Richard Saul Wurman:
It was a simple thing. He said “Man, give it five minutes.” I asked him what he meant by that? He said, it’s fine to disagree, it’s fine to push back, it’s great to have strong opinions and beliefs, but give my ideas some time to set in before you’re sure you want to argue against them. “Five minutes” represented “think”, not react. He was totally right. I came into the discussion looking to prove something, not learn something.
It's a great lesson, and I'm glad that Fried wrote it out. Fried has a feistiness that comes out in any writing or interviews he does, so you can feel how significant of a lesson this was for him. That feistiness also gives us one of the best quotes:
There are two things in this world that take no skill: 1. Spending other people’s money and 2. Dismissing an idea.PeopleGood lessonsListen, then speakRichard Saul WurmanFive minutes