Greatness
exploring the foundations of quality and the currents that fight against mediocrity
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Greatness
Founders
link.sbstck.comJason Shen summarizes Paul Graham’s Do Great Work
Instead of asking “Do I have a talent for this?”, one should ask "Do I want to have a talent for this?".
I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.
Poetry and Ambition
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