3-2-1: The Key to Great Relationships, the Will to Achieve, and Beauty as a Guiding Principle
... See more“If Stripe is a monstrously successful business, but what we make isn’t beautiful, and Stripe doesn’t embody a culture of incredibly exacting craftsmanship, I’ll be much less happy. I think the returns to both of those things in the world are really high. I think even beyond the pecuniary or financial returns, the world’s just uglier than it needs
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Henrik Karlssonsubstack.comInvestor and mathematician Jim Simons on beauty:
3-2-1: The key to great relationships, the will to achieve, and beauty as a guiding principle

I find that it’s in this search for aesthetic satisfaction that so many of the best lessons are found. I’m not talking about ornamentation or bells and whistles. I’m taking about the beauty of the four Cs: Clarity, cohesion, consistency, and conciseness. If you have the eye, you’ll recognize them easily (even if getting there isn’t quite so easy).
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