Tony Writer
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Tony Writer
If Nike announced that they were opening a hotel, you’d have a pretty good guess about what it would be like. But if Hyatt announced that they were going to start making shoes, you would have NO IDEA WHATSOEVER what those shoes would be like. That’s because Nike owns a brand and Hyatt simply owns real estate.
The Elegance of Nothing
They are born, then put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called 'work' in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they go to the gym in a box to sit in a box; they talk about thinking 'outside the box'; and when they die they... See more
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
– Peter Drucker
once again, I am deeply disgusted that I must first be bad at something in order to get good at it
Internet Peoplesubstack.comAll desire is a desire for being.”
We think we want things, but every desire points to a way of life, a kind of person we long to become. Objects seduce us not with their utility but with their promise of transcendence—status, attention, belonging.
We think we want things, but every desire points to a way of life, a kind of person we long to become. Objects seduce us not with their utility but with their promise of transcendence—status, attention, belonging.
To make something good, just do it. To make something great, just redo it, redo it, redo it. The secret to making fine things is in remaking them.
