Build Something Beautiful

The craft of building great things

Yoshio Goto and

One of the most underrated skills you can learn is the ability to ignore your mood and stick with the plan.

Gracie Van substack.com

juliana ong

"It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it." - Roger Ebert applies to every creative project

alex

The tiny details matter. Focus on them https://t.co/rwpKQpsTj8

it's not the critic who counts

Intelligence and capability are not enough. There must be the joy of doing something beautiful. Govindappa Venkataswamy

sari

Watching Japanese craftsmen at work makes me so happy it’s the way they make ceremonies out of mundane things by doing it with extreme care. Like how bartenders carve ice diamonds or how sushi chefs shape a ball of rice between wet fingers. I love delicateness & precision so much

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andrea

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.

juliana ong

Casa Tabarelli in Bolzano, Italy designed by Carlo Scarpa / now the home of art collector Josef Dalle Nogare with a new subterranean gallery designed with Walter Angonese & curated with Danh Võ / 📸 @stefangiftthaler via @fthtsi

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phoebe

There are the two convictions: one that focuses on the numbers and one that feels.

Anonymous • Conviction

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