Minsuk Kang 강민석
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Minsuk Kang 강민석
I want [the Mac] to be as beautiful as possible, even if it’s inside the box. A great carpenter isn’t going to use lousy wood for the back of a cabinet, even though nobody’s going to see it.
- Steve Jobs (via Walter Isaacson)
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In order to fund unproductive departments, administrators and faculty at universities have created a new class of shareholder: donors. It may be a good thing, bringing some private sector accountability and common sense to an insular culture. When donors speak, the university may choose to listen, but when they “close their checkbooks,” as Rowan... See more
Matter
Four steps: choose a field, learn enough to get to the frontier, notice gaps, explore promising ones. This is how practically everyone who's done great work has done it, from painters to physicists.
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
INTERVIEWER
Against whom were you measuring your work?
LE GUIN
Writers I’d have liked to be as good as, although not like ?
INTERVIEWER
Right.
LE GUIN
Charles Dickens. Jane Austen. And then, when I finally learned to read her, Virginia Woolf. Shoot for the top, always. You know you’ll never make it, but what’s the fun if you don ’t shoot for the top?
Against whom were you measuring your work?
LE GUIN
Writers I’d have liked to be as good as, although not like ?
INTERVIEWER
Right.
LE GUIN
Charles Dickens. Jane Austen. And then, when I finally learned to read her, Virginia Woolf. Shoot for the top, always. You know you’ll never make it, but what’s the fun if you don ’t shoot for the top?