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Insight from Patrick O'Shaughnessy podcast episode with the Collison brothers: Software is this intersection between creative work and mechanical industrial work, which is why there's a lot of people who have tried to put $1 billion dollars into software but it hasn't resulted in high quality software. It's similar to Hollywood, where you can't just spend $500 million to make a good movie. The whole thing is pointless unless someone has a vision, taste, and judgment. And the hard thing is that it's hard to build robust processes on taste and judgment because there's something unquantifiable about those things.
Muse • Infinite canvases with Steve Ruiz // Metamuse podcast episode 59
Sari: People want to go on a journey. They want to understand what your vision is, not just what problem you’re solving... See more
Elan Miller • How to Make Users Go ‘Whoa’
Software possesses an extremely strange property: it is possible to create high-value software products with effectively zero capital outlay. As Mozilla engineer Sam Penrose put it, software programming is labor that creates capital. This characteristic make software radically different from engineering materials like steel, and much closer to arti
... See moreVenkatesh Rao • Breaking Smart
Everyone’s software is good enough. Software used to be the weapon, now it’s just a tool.
In a world of scarcity, we treasure tools. In a world of abundance, we treasure taste. The barriers to entry are low, competition is fierce, and so much of the focus has shifted — from tech to distribution, and now, to something else too: taste. [2]
Taste is
... See moreAnu Atluru • Taste Is Eating Silicon Valley.
