Greatness
exploring the foundations of quality and the currents that fight against mediocrity
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Greatness
The best reason to not cut corners:
If you didn't get the response you were hoping for, how can you know if it was because your idea was bad vs. you cut corners?
Julie Zhuox.comin a world drowning in mediocrity, giving a shit is the most durable competitive advantage
I asked Kelly about the tradeoffs of focusing on a single thing if you want to be great (which is what I had been getting at before). “Greatness is overrated,” he said, and I perked up. “It’s a form of extremism, and it comes with extreme vices that I have no interest in. Steve Jobs was a jerk. Bob Dylan is a jerk.”
Brie Wolfson • Flounder Mode
At VidSummit today, @MrBeast told @ColinandSamir that his six-person thumbnail team makes around 20 different versions per video. They plan what the thumbnail will be BEFORE they film the video. He also sends versions to close friends to measure which one to use #VidSummit2022
“We will only work with the best people, and will not hesitate to reach out to them.”
Waqas Ali • Part II: Getting Atoms right by getting the team right 👨🏻🎨 👩🏼🎨 👟 🎯 | Product Hunt
keep your standards high.
Fermat's Library | The Mundanity of Excellence: An Ethnographic Report on Stratification and Olympic Swimmers annotated/explained version.
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All these books, there is the decision you can make to compromise on the quality of your product or take a shortcut or do something you would never dare do it. I just read the biography of the guy that started In-N-Out. Compared to his contemporaries, the McDonald's and Carl's Junior and all this explosion of fast food that was happening at that... See more
Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Passion & Pain
How Rick Rubin and Kanye West make groundbreaking creative work.
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