Greatness
exploring the foundations of quality and the currents that fight against mediocrity
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Greatness
Love this definition of art, from Robert Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance:
... See moreArt is anything you can do well, anything you can do with quality, anything where there are options for doing it well or poorly. And there are very few things in this world that don't have options for doing it well or poorly. So you can make an art
“anything where there are options for doing it well or poorly”
Patrick Collison on Stripe:
“My intuition is that more of Stripe success than one would think is down to the fact that people like beautiful things and for rational reasons.
Because, what does a beautiful thing tell you? It tells you the person who made it really cared, and you can observe some superficial details, but probably they didn’t only ... See more
How Rick Rubin and Kanye West make groundbreaking creative work.
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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
in a world drowning in mediocrity, giving a shit is the most durable competitive advantage
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't
Jim Collins • 7 highlights
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