Build Something Beautiful
The craft of building great things
Yoshio Goto and
Build Something Beautiful
One of the things I’ve discovered with buildings, particularly your so-called “high-road buildings” is they can become more amazing as time goes on. As that process proceeds, they are buildings that come to be loved. And once they’re loved, they’re safe, by and large. So the quality of mastery can be in the quality of the materials and crafting of a thing that invites that kind of caring, that will keep the thing going.
make something wonderful
exploring the why and how the act of creating helps us come alive. INSPIRING MORE PEOPLE TO CREATE!
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An hour on Bets
Brie set a 60-minute timer to answer the question “how can startups maintain a culture of innovation without losing focus on the core?” “Innovation is less an act of intellect than an act of will” –Joseph Schumpeter, economist What is a bet? A bet is something the company wants to accelerate p...
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On balancing focus with flare
There are the two convictions: one that focuses on the numbers and one that feels.
Anonymous • Conviction
in order to will any meaningful new project into existence, I actually must be untethered from reality. I need to view the world as bendable and controllable, not as this unchangeable force for me to analyze and carefully dodge around. So for me, “becoming more agentic” has really been a project in carefully maintaining a state of delusion.
A good reminder to self: stop overthinking and make the call