Building With Soul
Building companies with a soul
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Building With Soul
Figma acquisition shows how hard it is to turn money into software. You'd think for $20B you could build something as good as Figma yourself, but you can't. Software is art.
Nathan Manousostwitter.comtoday 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.comFolkert Gorter
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If you consider yourself a technologist, here’s your imperative: build things that are unabashedly, beautifully tangled into all else in life — people and relationships, politics, emotion and pain, understanding or the lack thereof, being alone, being together, homesickness, adventure, victory, loss. Build things that come alive, and drag... See more
Create things that come alive
Marketing is about making soulful bets. If you’re not purchasing cosmic lottery tickets somewhere you’ll never rise above the noise.
Core Ideology = Core Values + Purpose
Core Values = The organization’s essential and enduring tenets – a small set of general guiding principles; not to be confused with specific cultural or operating practices; not to be compromised for financial or short-term expediency.... See more
Purpose = The organization’s fundamental reasons for existence beyond just
Ed Brenegar • Leadership and the Culture of Simulation.
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.
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