Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.
ADAM SAVAGEI just had one of those ‘what the hell are we doing’ moments.
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I mean it’s ridiculous. People just walk up and grab you and hold you, because they love Chewbacca so much.
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I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
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Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren’t our audience – it’s the critical thinkers we love.
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It’s a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in.
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Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.
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Walking the floor at a con dressed as Chewbacca, you might as well be Bono.
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It’s a treat to see the sun rise over the desert. What am I saying? It’s a treat to fire off a rocket car over the desert!
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I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I’m more optimistic than pessimistic.
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Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore.
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And also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.
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Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task.
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I think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other’s designs,
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I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody’s going to take care of you.
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I have some ideas on how to fix that.
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The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?
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