Beverley
@beverley
I am a Technology Entrepreneur quietly building humble but handy Internet businesses.
Beverley
Music — with all the mysterious power by which it “enters one’s ears and dives straight into one’s soul, one’s emotional center” — is made not of notes of sound but of atoms of time. And if music is made of time, and if time is the substance we ourselves are made of, then in some profound sense, we are made of music.
Maria Popova • We Are Made of Music, We Are Made of Time: Violinist Natalie Hodges on the Poetic Science of Sound and Feeling
The more reliant a task is on a large and private dataset, the more likely it is that a workflow application will be dominant instead of a model. The best software companies function as a system of record, a repository for the most important data (customer IDs, product analytics, or credit card numbers), and they’ll be able to offer superior
... See moreAnd yet, in so much modern software today, you’re placed in a drab gray cubicle — anonymized and aggregated until you’re just a daily active user. For minimalism. For simplicity. For scale! But if our hope is to create software with feeling, it means inviting people in to craft it for themselves — to mold it to the contours of their unique lives
... See moreThe Browser Company • Optimizing For Feelings
So, the question that keeps me up at night is, what are us humans gonna do with all of our newfound time? Which brings me back to Japan, and this quaint Kyoto restaurant I found myself sitting in one evening. There were 10 seats, one chef/owner and one apprentice, and the most incredibly crafted experience. It wasn’t expensive, but everything was
... See moreScott Belsky • (100) The Personalization Wave, A Surge of Wildly Human-Intensive Non-Scalable Experiences, & Ideas Of The Month The Personalization Wave, A Surge of Wildly Human-Intensive Non-Scalable Experiences, & Ideas Of The Month
The Meanest Startup Advice I Ever Gave Catapulted My Friend Into the Top 10% in His Industry
Rachel Greenbergehandbook.com
“What if I told you that in order to be in the top 10% of certain industries, all you have to do is show up and market your business every single day? That won’t work for every startup, but in some spaces, it will put you ahead of the pack.”
I strongly dislike giving unsolicited opinions or advice to those who haven't requested it. However, I've inherited a trait from my parents that earned them both respect and resentment. While I strive to express it with more tact, that trait is an unshakable moral drive to be brutally honest… almost all the time.
There will always be too much to do – and this realisation is liberating. Today more than ever, there’s just no reason to assume any fit between the demands on your time – all the things you would like to do, or feel you ought to do – and the amount of time available. Thanks to capitalism, technology and human ambition, these demands keep
... See moreoliverburkeman.com • Oliver Burkeman's Last Column: The Eight Secrets to a (Fairly) Fulfilled Life
Ad legend Bill Bernbach letter on creativity, written in 1947:
Dear ________:
Our agency is getting big. That’s something to be happy about. But it’s something to worry about, too, and I don’t mind telling you I’m damned worried. I’m worried that we’re going to fall into the trap of bigness, that we’re going to worship techniques instead of
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