Greatness
exploring the foundations of quality and the currents that fight against mediocrity
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Greatness
“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.
The founder of Teenage Engineering opens up to his creative space
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A great lil story from the book Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland:
The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality.
His procedure was
... See moreI’ve always been a freak for the zealous pursuit of the better, especially where culture is concerned. I love the story of it, and also the motive. So that, too, is what this book is—a celebration of the art that happens when instinct meets rigor.
Adam Moss • The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing
- “The techniques that we use, they’re not a big secret. It’s just about making an effort and repeating the same thing every day.”
- Jiro repeats the same routine every day
- He even gets on the train from the same position
- He dislikes holidays and thinks they’re too long
- He wants to get back to work
- This routine is unthinkable for normal people
Jiro Ono: Simplicity Is The Ultimate Advantage | Founders Podcast with David Senra (#397) • Podcast Notes
Jiro dreams of sushi. Reminds me of “the mundanity of excellence”
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.
Evan Armstrong • The Cost of Greatness
Last Year You Said Next Year – Linear
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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