Greatness

exploring the foundations of quality and the currents that fight against mediocrity

Morale compounds via work: high morale helps you do good work, which increases your morale and helps you do even better work. But this cycle also operates in the other direction: if you're not doing good work, that can demoralize you and make it even harder to. Since it matters so much for this cycle to be running in the right direction, it can be... See more

Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work

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Short-term vs Long-term - The I.G.Y. Foundation

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focus on quality. There’s no competitive advantage in volume. You are going to lose to the robots.

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Creators, Creativity, and Technology with Bob Iger

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Love this definition of art, from Robert Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance:

Art 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

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“anything where there are options for doing it well or poorly”

"It is rarely a mysterious technique that drives us to the top, but rather a profound mastery of what may well be a basic skill set." —Josh Waitzkin Mastery of basics, not secret techniques, makes legends. Look at Roger Gracie's BJJ dominance—leverage and positioning. Jiro... See more

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All these books, there is the decision you can make to compromise on the quality of your product or take a shortcut or do something you would never dare do it. I just read the biography of the guy that started In-N-Out. Compared to his contemporaries, the McDonald's and Carl's Junior and all this explosion of fast food that was happening at that... See more

Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Passion & Pain

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I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.

Poetry and Ambition

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