Building With Soul
Building companies with a soul
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Building With Soul
We can build software to eat the world, or software to feed it. And if we are going to feed it, it will require a different approach to design, one which optimizes for a different type of growth, and one that draws upon—and rewards—the humility of the designers who participate within it.
Kevin Slavin • Design as Participation
It was then I realised architecture is not about creating structures that are aesthetically pleasing or merely functional: it’s about designing spaces that evoke emotion and resonate with the human spirit. The Farnsworth House may have been a triumph of modernist design, but it lacked the warmth and humanity architecture should embody.
“Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.”
—Hermann Hesse
"Building Product at Linear" with Nan Yu, Head of Product at Linear (1/2)
Jacob Joliboismakingproductsense.com
every great institution is the extended shadow of a single person.
Kasra • Create the social spaces you want to see in the world
companies are a fingerprint of the people who make them. which begs the question: “what does a you-shaped X look like?”
thread for what i want the internet / software to look, feel, and be like
spencer changmobile.twitter.comMy father, the late, great Rashmi Thakrar, who passed away too, too soon, believed that “for something to truly succeed, it must have a little poetry at the heart of it.” This idea steers us in perhaps every single one of our endeavours.