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... Gunpei Yokoi, asked his boss, 'What should I make?' Nintendo chief executive Hiroshi Yamauchi replied, 'Something great.'Game Over Nintendo's Battle to Dominate Videogames

David Sheff

... Gunpei Yokoi, asked his boss, 'What should I make?' Nintendo chief executive Hiroshi Yamauchi replied, 'Something great.'Game Over Nintendo's Battle to Dominate Videogames

Tags: inspirational, leadership, motivational, work

Sometimes I am all right. Is this what they call letting go? I have let go, if letting go means I am all right sometimes.

David Sheff

Sometimes I am all right. Is this what they call letting go? I have let go, if letting go means I am all right sometimes.

Tags: acceptance, grief, survival

About Author
David Sheff (born December 23, 1955) is an American author of the books Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction, Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America's Greatest Tragedy, Game Over, The Buddhist on Death Row and All We Are Saying: The Last Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
He also writes for magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Wired, Rolling Stone and other publications.

Anne Lamott advises, Try not to compare your insides with other people’s outsides.

David Sheff

Anne Lamott advises, Try not to compare your insides with other people’s outsides.

Ha Jin writes: 'Some great men and women are fortified and redeemed through their suffering, and they even seek sadness instead of happiness, just as Van Gogh asserted, 'Sorrow is better than joy,' an...

David Sheff

Ha Jin writes: 'Some great men and women are fortified and redeemed through their suffering, and they even seek sadness instead of happiness, just as Van Gogh asserted, 'Sorrow is better than joy,' an...

The seventh and eighth grade were for me, and for every single good and interesting person I have ever known, what the writers of the bible meant when they used the words and ...It was all over for a...

David Sheff

The seventh and eighth grade were for me, and for every single good and interesting person I have ever known, what the writers of the bible meant when they used the words and ...It was all over for a...

Tags: side note

You’re safe, I remembered whispering to Quintana when I first saw her in the ICU at UCLA. I’m here. You’re going to be all right. Half of her skull had been shaved for surgery. I could see the long cu...

David Sheff

You’re safe, I remembered whispering to Quintana when I first saw her in the ICU at UCLA. I’m here. You’re going to be all right. Half of her skull had been shaved for surgery. I could see the long cu...

You’ve got to wonder what Jesus was like at seventeen, Anne Lamott wrote. They don’t even talk about it in the Bible, he was apparently so awful.

David Sheff

You’ve got to wonder what Jesus was like at seventeen, Anne Lamott wrote. They don’t even talk about it in the Bible, he was apparently so awful.