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- 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
from Notes on “Taste” — Are.na by Brie Wolfson
- Building isn’t easy, or we’d already be doing all this. We need to demand more of our political leaders, of our CEOs, our entrepreneurs, our investors. We need to demand more of our culture, of our society. And we need to demand more from one another. We’re all necessary, and we can all contribute, to building.
Every step of the way, to everyone aro... See morefrom It’s Time to Build | Andreessen Horowitz by Marc Andreessen
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.
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It’s the sound of failure: so much of modern art is the sound of things going out of contfrom The sound of failure by Brian Eno
(re)defining "work" & productivity
El significado de "trabajo" más allá de un sueldo o algo que hacemos de 9 a 5.
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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
... See morefrom Seth Godin — The Pursuit of Meaning, Choosing Your Attitude, Overcoming Rejection, and More by Tim Ferriss
☙ craft ❧
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- 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.
from No more boring apps
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
from Link
when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must also repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it.
from A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) by Christopher Alexander