Here’s my response to the Bloganuary January 6 post:
I think of many quotes that could go into the billboard.
If you had one shot or one opportunity
Eminem’s Lose Yourself song.
To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment
Would you capture it or just let it slip?
Though it’s probably a bit too cheesy to put a song lyric like this into a billboard.
I am the master of my fate
Invictus.
I am the captain of my soul.
I first learned this from the movie Invictus. Great movie.
见自己 见天地 见众生
(Direct translation: “See yourself; see the heaven and earth; see all living beings.”)
From 一代宗师 The Grandmaster movie.
Learn and understand one self. Learn from everything and everyone in the world. And give back what you learn to the world.
Leave it better than you found it.
Sir Robert Baden-Powell.
A phrase that is mentioned quite regularly within Automattic. The idea is that if we find something that is not ideal – whether it is documentation, blog post, code, physical environment etc – we should make it better than how it was. Edit the documentation. Refactor the code. Pick up the trash. Make it better for the person after us, which might eventually come back to us.
Maybe even The Automattic Creed. But that’s probably too long to fit into a freeway billboard.
And no, I don’t need to promote my own blog on the billboard.
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