on doing work that matters
The antidote to envy is one's own work. Always one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the doing of it… [T]he work itself. It drives the spooks away.
-Bonnie Friedman
Why do furniture designers keep designing new chairs? We know it's not to solve the problem of "sitting." The chair is simply the medium. The true goal is something bigger: to inspire, to broaden our understanding of what's possible, or express something unique about what it means to be alive today.
No more boring apps
Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit – all these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided.... See more
It’s the sound of failure: so much of modern art is the sound of things going out of cont
Brian Eno • The sound of failure
what we're looking for is to find work where our work is unmistakably us, where our work is something we can point to and say, "Given who I am and what I see, I made this. I made this for you. Can you please help me make it better?" And when we can do that, our days are totally different than when we're basically sure that an AI is going
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More and more it seems to me that about the best thing in life is to have a piece of work worth doing and then to do it well.
Leadership Quotes by Doris Kearns Goodwin
(re)defining "work" & productivity
El significado de "trabajo" más allá de un sueldo o algo que hacemos de 9 a 5.
Elena • 5 cards
What makes work good is time to read, think, slow down, and create a rich inner life. In other words, good work comes from slowing the fuck down and trusting that good ideas will come through if we give ourselves enough time and space to see them.