Greatness
exploring the foundations of quality and the currents that fight against mediocrity
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Greatness
Highly competent people go around the world in a state of slight dismay at how sloppy everything is
Sasha Chapinx.comFrom Christopher Alexander foreword to Richard Gabriel's "Patterns Of Software":
In my life as an architect, I find that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low. If I ask a student whether her design is as good as Chartres, she... See more
The most important lesson I’ve learned for developing new products: You don’t have to be the first person to come up with a product idea. In fact, that will rarely be the case. But you can almost always make an existing idea better. And that’s when you get the big wins.
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such ease and joy. we sometimes feel that in order to succeed we have to take it seriously and we have to put our own identities and selves on the line to achieve greatness. excelling without ego feels like a high level of mastery. to endure sacrifice and not desire to win, but to simply enjoy the stage. that’s hard and an amazing and admirable place to arrive it. the ego promoting the endeavour’s seriousness vs effortless and unattached excellence….
Jason Shen summarizes Paul Graham’s Do Great Work
Fermat's Library | The Mundanity of Excellence: An Ethnographic Report on Stratification and Olympic Swimmers annotated/explained version.
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