Building With Soul
Building companies with a soul
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Building With Soul
Folkert Gorter
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Build a world. Make your projects and work a vessel for self-expression. Make your software match your vibe. Make reading your book feel like it feels to talk with you. Customize, make it bespoke, put yourself into it instead of doing what you feel you should. This has all kinds of benefits (reducing burn out for instance) but especially helps with... See more
Be an idea expander
in other words, be a human, not a machine
What would it be like to run your life at the speed of your own soul,
instead of always feeling like you need to speed up or slow down to match someone else?
River Kennax.comIncreasingly, the work that stand out will be more raw and incomplete (because — by definition — new ideas haven’t been optimized because…they are new).
Eno explains:
"[On one end, you have] auto-tune that perfectly puts music into tune…which is sort of flawless and faultless. [In contrast, the other side] is clumsy, awkward, crude and unfinished... See more
Eno explains:
"[On one end, you have] auto-tune that perfectly puts music into tune…which is sort of flawless and faultless. [In contrast, the other side] is clumsy, awkward, crude and unfinished... See more
andrea and
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?”
I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh
A rare counterexample to the principle of specialization: your site should never seem like it was made by communications people, and the best way to achieve this is for it not to be. This is something founders should continue to micromanage forever.
Paul Grahamtwitter.comWe went public, and we have more than 50 percent American investors as shareholders. Before going public, I said to them, “Are you looking for a company that grows very fast, that makes profits that are too high, in our view, quick profits? Do not invest in our company. Do you want a company that grows in a gracious way? That allows suppliers to... See more