Greatness
exploring the foundations of quality and the currents that fight against mediocrity
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Greatness
obsessing over quality often demands that you slow down, as the focus required to get better is simply not compatible with busyness.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Rick Rubin on turning Metallica around
It’s always better to think and work backwards from great than it is to work forward from good
be extremely critical of all your work until it’s great. it’s not about you personally, it’s about how people feel and receive the work
H/t patrick oshag
Greatness Without Goals
joincolossus.comThe 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.
Jeff Morris Jr. • Tweet
Morale compounds via work: high morale helps you do good work, which increases your morale and helps you do even better work. But this cycle also operates in the other direction: if you're not doing good work, that can demoralize you and make it even harder to. Since it matters so much for this cycle to be running in the right direction, it can be ... See more
How to Do Great Work
Short-term vs Long-term - The I.G.Y. Foundation
igyfoundation.org.uk
Founders
link.sbstck.comJason Shen summarizes Paul Graham’s Do Great Work
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't
Jim Collins • 7 highlights
amazon.com
From 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 often smiles tolerantly at m... See more