Greatness
exploring the foundations of quality and the currents that fight against mediocrity
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Greatness
Creators, Creativity, and Technology with Bob Iger
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"Every product in the world, the quality at the end of the day is simply a reflection of how much the people who created it gave a shit about the product."
-Tobi, founder of Shopify
focus on quality. There’s no competitive advantage in volume. You are going to lose to the robots.
The founder of Teenage Engineering opens up to his creative space
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- “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”
Low expectations are a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we aim high, we’ll get better results.
Ted Chiang • Exhalation: Stories
The human species was given this tremendous gift of neuroplasticity, the ability to change ourselves and be better in deliberate ways. My definition of greatness is anyone that’s making that effort, even in a tiny way, just to take this incredible machinery that we were given—our nervous system—and to leverage it toward being better, feeling
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