This is one my favourite Hodinkee Radio episodes. I think you can tell from all the excerpts I’ve listed below. It was one of the first they released and since then I feel few have matched it.
2 mins. 28 secs. – The guy who connected us was Michael Williams from Paul & Williams. He made the email introductions.
14:45 – Sometimes I wonder if industries get too established they become very fossilised in their thinking. […] When you look too much inwards you stop thinking about the opportunities.
31:20 – Learning to listen to yourself and not to the marketing and the brands and what everybody else says is pretty hard for most people but that’s where you need to end up. When you become a collector, that’s how you should be thinking about. Not what you’re going to sell in the future but what you’re going to wear every day.
34:22 – People who make you happy everyday are the people you collect.
It’s funny that the previous two excerpts were picked to come up first in the anniversary episode of Hodinkee that came out yesterday. It was obviously significant for them too.
36:30 – The reason we feel time moves so fast is because all the notifications, all the inputs, all the sensory overload we experience makes our bodies think that our time is moving much faster.
40:40 – The relationship with the inanimate objects has to be as strong as the one’s you have with real people.
41:20 – We all have our way to of dealing with time anxiety and the stuff of modern life. Mine is just being in a place, just standing there, taking it all in and forgetting that there is other stuff which I need to worry about. Photography let’s me do that.
46:25 – I think we’re all coming to this planet alone. We look for our tribes, we find them and then we leave. If you can enable more people to come together, you’re winning.
This is the excerpt which stayed with me the most. It encouraged me to email Om as it’s exactly what I’m aiming to do with another project I started.
53:05 – I only buy if I can justify I will use it every day.
I’ve been trying to apply this to everything I buy. Not necessarily if I will use it every day but definitely if it’ll get a lot of use. Less, but better.
57:20 – When I think about any product, any person, any aspect of life… I always think about what’s the happiness coefficient? What’s the value they bring? It’s not about how important the thing is, how famous people are, how expensive a thing is. What’s the happiness coefficient?
My Excerpts 