Build Something Beautiful
The craft of building great things
Yoshio Goto and
Build Something Beautiful
Colossus Review Issue 1 note from the editor
Craft is the new "growth hack".
Investing in craft, means you invest in quality of the experience, and that benefits in all of areas of the business.
People talk about you. People want your product. Sales is easier. You create customer champions. Retention is higher.
Patrick Collison on Stripe:
“My intuition is that more of Stripe success than one would think is down to the fact that people like beautiful things and for rational reasons.
Because, what does a beautiful thing tell you? It tells you the person who made it really cared, and you can observe some superficial details, but probably they didn’t only ... See more
work isn’t war, from Jason Fried.
fantastic.
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.
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.
There are only two things you have to know about business: build something users love, and make more than you spend. If you get these two ri... See more
“I think that may be the highest purpose of any work of art, to inspire someone else to save themselves through art. Creating creates creators.”
― Jeff Tweedy, Let's Go (So We Can Get Back)
The Long Path that Leads from the Making of Our World to God — Building Beauty
buildingbeauty.org
On the profound connection between architecture and spirituality, arguing that mindful architectural practices can enhance the wholeness of the Earth and connect us deeper with ourselves.