Building With Soul
Building companies with a soul
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Building With Soul
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Competing with giants: An inside look at how The Browser Company builds product | Josh Miller (CEO)
youtube.comWe 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
The problem with the Lean Startup as a mindset is that it leads to a Minimal Viable Life. And I know many people feel like they’re living one these days. The Lean startup is a mental model that is ultimately not helpful for human flourishing. There are metaphysical, creative, and moral issues with it.
read.lukeburgis.com • Why We Need More Omakase Creators
Techno-Industrials are addressing larger markets than most software companies can.
They use whichever tools they need to provide better solutions to key bottlenecks with better unit economics than incumbents.
They are more capital efficient than most investors expect.
And they have to be more strategically sound than the average software company.
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They use whichever tools they need to provide better solutions to key bottlenecks with better unit economics than incumbents.
They are more capital efficient than most investors expect.
And they have to be more strategically sound than the average software company.
B... See more
Better Tools, Bigger Companies
today we launched 🪴Boosts v2🌴 in Arc.
a collection of simple tools that let you edit the internet and make it your own (mostly without code!)
a thread of my favorite artifacts from this project: early prototypes, fun design details, and deleted scenes 🧵: https://t.co/TGVHSvZV04
nate parrotttwitter.comevery 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?”
“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