Build Something Beautiful
The craft of building great things
Yoshio Goto and
Build Something Beautiful
In a world of fast content incentivized by advertising-based attention-hacking business models, being slow and considered is a superpower.
André Chaperon • Values
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.
The hard problem is earning the right to hold people’s memory. The best way to preserve agency and fight technological fascism is by making the alternative so culturally compelling that people choose it because it serves them better and is more fun.
We can't build a sustainable business by chasing every opportunity.
A sustainable business is strategically constrained. Its leaders know what the business is and, more importantly, what it's not.
A sustainable business is strategically constrained. Its leaders know what the business is and, more importantly, what it's not.
Tara McMullin • Why Nachos Aren't on the Menu
As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.
John Collisontwitter.comThere are essentially two business models right now: boring, useful things that can print money and tastemaker brands that can brute force cultural relevancy. Dumb $ is funding the middle: stuff that is neither useful nor cool enough to make it past current startup headwinds.
Daisy Aliototwitter.com