Greatness

exploring the foundations of quality and the currents that fight against mediocrity

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

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A Commencement Address Too Honest to Deliver in Person

David Brooks theatlantic.com

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Don’t pressure yourself into making noise on the internet because you’re afraid of being forgotten.

Take your time & make something that will last longer than you will even if that means infrequent output.

Trends will get you there now, a unique and original feeling will last forever.

Alex Tan • Keys to Longevity

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If Apple was a democracy (aka customers don’t know what they want. or greatness requires a certain degree of dictatorship)

Element (Private) / Cosmos

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Jerry Seinfeld: Comedian, Innovator, Micromanager

Daniel McGinn hbr.org

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Walter Isaacson on the link between suffering and greatness and those with happy childhoods: “We grow up with fewer demons but we grow up with less drive. We end being Boswell and not Johnson. We end up being the observer and not the doer. Respect those who are in the arena…” A few... See more

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The Cost of Greatness

Evan Armstrong every.to

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