John Borthwick
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John Borthwick
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“No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.” Oliver Cromwell
So, how to wrap my arms around this term in a way that captures its spirit without flattening it?
Brie Wolfson • Notes on “Taste”
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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He found Sculley’s newly built mansion ostentatious, with its floor-to-ceiling windows, but he admired the three hundred-pound custom-made oak doors that were so carefully hung and balanced that they swung open with the touch of a finger. “Steve was fascinated by that because he is, as I am, a perfectionist,” Sculley recalled. Thus began the... See more
Walter Isaacson • Steve Jobs
we are just base for technology.
Maven
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.
I was filming him this was quote the screen test and he figured out what was going on and he took his hair and he did his hair up he had very long blond hair and he did it up in a kind of saying himself in the back and he's a to polish made it black and then he put on a shirt and he remembers they did that he mid the lapel and he started to do that... See more
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"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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