Greatness

One of the best ideas I learned from Kobe Bryant: “Don’t copy the what. Copy the how” Kobe would study greatness in any domain. Sports, music, business, art, whatever. This is why: “No matter what discipline you are in, there’s a... See more

There is a tension; the longer you remain committed to a single cause of greatness, the more incapable you become of being good enough at everything else.

One way to aim high is to try to make something that people will care about in a hundred years. Not because their opinions matter more than your contemporaries', but because something that still seems good in a hundred years is more likely to be genuinely good.

Kurt, Dave and Chris:

First let me apologize for taking a couple of days to put this outline together. When I spoke to Kurt I was in the middle of making a Fugazi album1, but I thought I would have a day or so between records to sort everything out. My schedule changed unexpectedly, and this is the first moment I've had to go through it all. Apology

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