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.
Founders
link.sbstck.comJason Shen summarizes Paul Graham’s Do Great Work
Fermat's Library | The Mundanity of Excellence: An Ethnographic Report on Stratification and Olympic Swimmers annotated/explained version.
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When I see outsized success I’m aware it’s a result of trying more, sometimes trying and failing for years or in a way that lacks social recognition. When I’m moved to tears by mastery of craft — the elegance of movement, of process, it’s due to devotion of time and spirit. Things don’t just become great by accident. Most times its a long and quiet... See more
Nix 🕊 • highly concentrated effort
really great read from.a former Instagram designer on the dysfunction of today’s largest tech companies.
Did Steve jobs ever say, "Hey, I want to make a $100 million company?" That was never in discussion. He said, "I want to make insanely great products. Then I want to get really good at marketing because I want everybody in the world to have an Apple device, and the way to do that is to get really good at marketing."
Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Passion & Pain
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't
Jim Collins • 7 highlights
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