Marissa lives on but the Notorious B.I.G. is gone so you’ve got to carry on, heed the wisdom of their years as it creeps into your ears, miss it and you’ll find yourself in tears.

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Google’s vice president of search products and user experience may have spent her life in much different circles than the late Christopher Wallace, but Marissa Mayer’s list of what works in life isn’t much different than the epic lyrics behind “The Ten Crack Commandments” that Biggie left behind.

Mayer’s language is a lot less colorful than Biggie’s. She talked about 9 principles of innovation, based on her experience at the Googleplex. Turns out she sampled other people’s work in creating her own rap:

“When I was a grad student at Stanford, I saw that phrase on a flyer for another company in the basement of the computer-science building. It made me stop dead in my tracks and laugh out loud. A couple of months later, I’m working at Google, and the engineers were asked to write job ads for engineers. We had a contest. I put, ‘You’re brilliant? We’re hiring. Come work at Google,’ and got eight times the click rate that anyone else got.”

Biggie’s words focused more on day to day life, in his epic “Commandments.” An associate professor of musicology at Indiana University adapted them to professorial life, but anyone can benefit from wisdom like “Know you heard this before, never get high on your own supply.”

We prefer to translate that as “don’t give yourself more credit than you deserve, keep working hard at what you do.”

Peace and much love, my readership.