Greatness
exploring the foundations of quality and the currents that fight against mediocrity
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Greatness
Walter 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…”
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While there are arguments for and against the impact of the individual – Carlyle vs. Tolstoy – we all benefit from taking an optimistic view of this question and acting as if individuals can make a very big difference.
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link.sbstck.comJason Shen summarizes Paul Graham’s Do Great Work
Craftsmanship
the quality of design and work shown in something made by hand; artistry.
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"Every product in the world, the quality at the end of the day is simply a reflection of how much the people who created it gave a shit about the product."
-Tobi, founder of Shopify
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
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