Greatness
exploring the foundations of quality and the currents that fight against mediocrity
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Greatness
Instead of asking “Do I have a talent for this?”, one should ask "Do I want to have a talent for this?".
Highly competent people go around the world in a state of slight dismay at how sloppy everything is
Sasha Chapinx.comTaste requires originality. It invokes an aspirational authenticity. Writer George Saunders calls this “achieving the iconic space,” and it’s what he’s after when he meets his creative writing students. “They arrive already wonderful. What we try to do over the next three years is help them achieve what I call their “iconic space” — the place from... See more
Brie Wolfson • Notes on “Taste”
Creators, Creativity, and Technology with Bob Iger
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Rick Rubin on turning Metallica around
It’s always better to think and work backwards from great than it is to work forward from good
Fermat's Library | The Mundanity of Excellence: An Ethnographic Report on Stratification and Olympic Swimmers annotated/explained version.
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How Rick Rubin and Kanye West make groundbreaking creative work.
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Founders
link.sbstck.comJason Shen summarizes Paul Graham’s Do Great Work