Greatness
exploring the foundations of quality and the currents that fight against mediocrity
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Greatness
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
-Steve Jobs
Taste 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”
Great artists don’t study art history to figure out what art to create.
Great founders don’t analyze the market to figure out what product to build.
Naval Ravikanttwitter.comWalter Isaacson on the link between suffering and greatness and those with happy childhoods:
“We grow up with fewer demons but we grow up with less drive. We end being Boswell and not Johnson. We end up being the observer and not the doer. Respect those who are in the arena…”
A few... See more