Greatness
exploring the foundations of quality and the currents that fight against mediocrity
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Greatness
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….
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
If Apple was a democracy (aka customers don’t know what they want. or greatness requires a certain degree of dictatorship)
haven't read yet but was recommended on a podcast - excerpts from the author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance on quality and related concepts. will edit this note with takeaways once i've read.
The founder of Teenage Engineering opens up to his creative space
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Taste requires originality. It invokes an aspirational authenticity. Writer George Saunders calls this “achieving the iconic space,” and it’s what he’s after when he meets his creative writing students. “They arrive already wonderful. What we try to do over the next three years is help them achieve what I call their “iconic space” — the place from... See more