Harrison Moore
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Harrison Moore
For me, the biggest insight, and maybe the largest part of the appeal, is that batchcraft seems like one of the only instances in life where you see a satisfactory reconciliation between individualism and collectivism.
Architects sometimes design buildings with intentional flaws, such as a “wabi-sabi” approach in Japanese aesthetics. These imperfections make the spaces feel lived-in and welcoming.
The imperfections you’re tempted to fix might prove to be what make the work great.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Now that I’ve gotten that off my chest, I do want to dig into the benefits of looking at your subscribers as members. It can become a self regulating community that inadvertently becomes more loyal to the brand.
Jacob Cohen Donnelly • Subscriptions Is Perfectly Fine; But Community Can Give You More
Damascus steel has impurities added for strength
When musicians make electronic music, they add in imperfections to stop it sounding too mechanical to the human ear. They make one beat or instrument play slightly out of sync with the rest. Perfect metronomic melody is not something the brain likes to listen to. We need imperfection in order to relate to music.
Cracks in walls create strong footholds for climbers
As basaltic lava cools, it contracts and forms hexagonal columns. While appearing geometrically perfect, slight irregularities in these formations help dissipate stress, preventing fractures from propagating easily.
“I get why you’re so attracted to batches of things. As an only child, and as somebody that was excluded at school quite a lot, maybe this is a way you’ve been able to heal yourself from those challenges around finding and entering communities.”