Build Something Beautiful
The craft of building great things
Yoshio Goto and
Build Something Beautiful
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.
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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exploring the why and how the act of creating helps us come alive. INSPIRING MORE PEOPLE TO CREATE!
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it's not the critic who counts
Optimization alone can't get you novelty or interestingness.
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... See more
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.
I know I’m being my “best self” when I’m making something
“You feel differently towards the world when you make things.”
– Milton Glaser