Buck wild things Marshall Bock has said on the Design Details podcast

Known ignorance is better than assumed knowledge. I’d rather know that I’m dumb than think I’m smart.

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I’d much rather wake up everyday excited to do my job than wake up and slog just to collect a paycheck.

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Become the person for a thing.

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Computer every 6 (years), watch every 4 (years), and phone every 2 (years).

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You know what’s the second best part of a 3-day weekend? It’s a 4-day week.

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I historically have had a different password for every thing that I use and in order to remember all of those different passwords, I created kind of a formula in my mind that as long as I use my first inclination when slotting elements into that formula, I can remember it whenever I want to.

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I can mould existing clay but I can't create clay.

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I don't wanna yuck anyone's yum...

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You don’t necessarily notice it when it’s on, but you notice it when it’s off.

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Really it’s the difference between someone who can’t turn it off and someone who has to turn it on, y’know what I mean?

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They say when you’re writing a movie or when you’re writing anything, write the bad version first. Just to get it out. Like intentionally, write terrible dialogue, really bad direction, all of that stuff – just get it down there so that you have something to edit. You have clay on the table to mould. It’s hard to get clay on the table but once you have clay on the table it’s easy to push and move around, take some away, put something back in. That original clay you just gotta power through and get it on the table.

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I can vouch for the Lululemon for men I have a pair of pants and Brian, I gotta say, my butt looks fantastic in them. Great pockets inside of pockets, great construction.

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Bock's constant – People don't read.

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The meta is always changing. The meta is inherently ephemeral.

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I think it’s impossible to do a visual redesign without having some sort of user experience implications based on that, right … You can pee without pooping but you can't poop without peeing.

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Chasing the shiny thing doesn’t always pay off and what seems shiny today might not be shiny tomorrow.

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(on naming layers) Naming conventions should be the diet that you’re on, that doesn’t mean you can't have cheat days y'know but recognise that you’re cheating on those days. The normal thing is the diet, the naming convention - it’s less fun, it’s more work but it's better for you long term. I don't know. That’s how I think about it.

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