Greatness
exploring the foundations of quality and the currents that fight against mediocrity
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Greatness
- “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”
focus on quality. There’s no competitive advantage in volume. You are going to lose to the robots.
I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.
Poetry and Ambition
Human scale institutions strive for optimum scale. Not mega scale. The point at which maximum quality can be attained. Their purpose is not to maximize profitability. It is to maximize well-being. Whose? Everyone’s.
umair haque • Why We Need to Build Human-Scale Organizations
Creators, Creativity, and Technology with Bob Iger
podcasts.apple.comThere 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
Short-term vs Long-term - The I.G.Y. Foundation
igyfoundation.org.uk