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What I mean is that with its blunt authority the New Oxford definition of "pathos" -- "a quality that evokes pity or sadness" -- shuts down the conversation, it shuts down your thinking about the word, while the Webster's version gets your wheels turning: it seems so much more provisional -- "that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity,... See more

I'm not sure why you won't find writing like that in dictionaries these days, but you won't.

The ideal isn’t to erase the difference between design and engineering. Each side has its depth, taste, and craft. The goal is simpler: maintain a shared language of making.

I think that overlap, that shared percentage of language, is the real definition of velocity.

the answer wasn’t to coast or climb higher. It was to begin again

“micro-pessimist, macro-optimist”

There’s a healthy culture of grabbing the work that most energizes (or annoys!) you combined with giving ambitious tasks to one person, regardless of title or org structure or team, and just letting them be owner, full stop.

His range is wide, but all his work somehow rhymes.