Fulfilling work
Time and time again, it is when the rubber of ambition meets the road of practicality that things get tough.
Sari Azout • Figuring it out, again and again
Sublime Principles and Culture (shared internally with the team):
Be fanatic about product excellence
We're not in the business of creating software - we are in the business of building a product people love. Most organizations lower their standards in an effort to move things along and get things off their desks. We have to fight that impulse every
... See moreOne: You have to train yourself to notice things. It's not 100% natural at first – it certainly wasn’t for me – but raising those antennae is a very worthwhile thing to do. And it snowballs: once I got started taking notes, I ended up taking more and more of them.
Two: Be very liberal about what you keep. If you're going through your notes, cross... See more
Two: Be very liberal about what you keep. If you're going through your notes, cross... See more
Robin Sloan • Tasting Notes With Robin Sloan
As my work-driven identity dissolved, I felt a burning ambition across all facets of life. Instead of a desire to achieve goals that society told me were valuable, I felt a hunger to discover what makes me feel fully alive. Instead of a commitment to “winning” other people’s games, I felt a commitment to design a life that I deeply enjoy... See more
Sam Sager • Work, Ambition, and Identity
A lot of woo is actually true.
We just lack the mental capacity, the frameworks, the language, the ease of articulation, and the consistency of evidence to make it philosophically coherent and scientifically grounded.
But we will get there.
Disregard culture punishing you for taking this seriously. It's just a social fad that comes from the collective... See more
We just lack the mental capacity, the frameworks, the language, the ease of articulation, and the consistency of evidence to make it philosophically coherent and scientifically grounded.
But we will get there.
Disregard culture punishing you for taking this seriously. It's just a social fad that comes from the collective... See more
Sometimes maybe it’s best, in art and writing, to be as dumb as possible, follow the joy, because at the very least that's real. And there, you’ve taken the first step towards the truth.
Making out and eating pizza with J.Crew
more often the performance prevents people from doing the difficult work that produces genuine contentment.