principles

We tend to undervalue the elementary ideas and overvalue the complicated ones. Most of us get jobs based on some form of specialized knowledge, so this makes sense. We don't think we have much value if we know the things everyone else does, so we focus our effort on developing unique expertise to set ourselves apart. The problem is then that we rej

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Scott Belsky Talk at South Park Commons

• Often designs from frustration 

• Right now, greater skill is being brought by compute and developing a democratization of many things (code, design, etc.). Because of this, taste will probably be the most important skill 

• Taste is derived from culture and overlap of industries 

• Because of that

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