Fulfilling work
“Intelligence is making hard problems easy; stupidity is making easy problems hard; genius is making hard problems go away.”
[I]f I were called upon to state in a few words the essence of everything I was trying to say both as a novelist and as a preacher, it would be something like this: Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy... See more
Frederick Buechner • Listening to Your Life — Frederick Buechner

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
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 moreA 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