Marta
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Marta
- 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 enough, so we skate by on that as the default. And there are many correct paths to take. You’ll be able to cook a yummy meal, enjoy the movie, build a useable product, don a shirt that fits. But taste ... See more
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 way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of original ideas, and they don’t bring much culture into their product.
- Insight from Patrick O'Shaughnessy podcast episode with the Collison brothers: Software is this intersection between creative work and mechanical industrial work, which is why there's a lot of people who have tried to put $1 billion dollars into software but it hasn't resulted in high quality software. It's similar to Hollywood, where you can... See more
— 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 things are liable to please your eye when you’re already in that I-love-everything mindset. Inspiration can affix to your face a pair of rose-colored glasses. One potential downfall could be that if y
... See more- Too many people think the grass is greener somewhere else but grass is green where you water it, remember that.