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Insight from Patrick O'Shaughnessy podcast episode with the Collison brothers: Software is this intersection between creative work and mechanical i

Steve Jobs, on Microsoft: The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste, and I don’t mean that in a small

Developing taste is an exercise in vulnerability: it requires you to trust your instincts and preferences, even when they don’t align with current tre

Taste is not the same as correctness, though. To do something correctly is not necessarily to do it tastefully. For most things, correctness is good e

— but I do also think there’s something to approaching one’s window shopping from a place of inspiration vs. one of looking for inspiration. Many more

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great

In my experience, inspiration is not something that finds you, or offers itself to you, nor for that matter is faith. Inspiration and faith are simila

There is beauty in something well-made. The fine fit of a tailored suit. The delicate stitching of a vibrant rug. The mechanical elegance of a well-tu

Too many people think the grass is greener somewhere else but grass is green where you water it, remember that.