John Borthwick
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John Borthwick
@borthwick
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“No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.” Oliver Cromwell
From Ezra Klein:
AI might be able to churn out content faster than we can, but we still need a human mind to sift through and figure out what’s good. In other words, A.I. is going to turn more of us into editors. But editing is a peculiar skill. It’s hard to test for, or teach, or even describe. But it’s the crucial step in the creative process that
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what a strange idea
Computer scientist and technology blogger John Gruber on quality:
"The quality of any creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge."
How to define what makes it so — think about quality in Zen and the art of motor cycle maintenance — you know it when it’s there.
"the truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it"
➰ Quality is everything …
Two quotes from ZAMM on why:
'“he saw now that Quality was a cleavage term. What every intellectual analyst looks for. You take your analytic knife, put the point directly on the term Quality and just tap, not hard, gently, and the whole world splits, cleaves, right in two—hip and square, classic and romantic,
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