Jiro Ono: Simplicity Is The Ultimate Advantage | Founders Podcast with David Senra (#397) • Podcast Notes
"It is rarely a mysterious technique that drives us to the top, but rather a profound mastery of what may well be a basic skill set."
—Josh Waitzkin
Mastery of basics, not secret techniques, makes legends.
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My notes from Hackers & Painters by Paul Graham:
The way to create something beautiful is often to make subtle tweaks to something that already exists, or to combine existing ideas in a slightly new way.
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The innovative mindset of questioning everything, as exemplified by Steve Jobs, and how companies lose this vision.
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Steve gives some great advice on how to think about building great products. He says, your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them. It's a rare person who etches grooves that are other than a specific way of looking at
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Jiro's mastery of sushi through simplicity, minimalism, and intentional differentiation as lessons for excellence in any craft
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And something that stands out in the documentary, again, what I'm trying to do is like, I'm not really trying to talk about sushi or sushi chef. I'm interested in these ideas, like you can extract, turn everything into an extraction, take the ideas out of his approach to his craft and think about how can we use them for ours.
One of my favorite
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