Pritesh
- All this is to say is that for design, as for other fields, the road to greatness is often paved with obsession—an immoderate, unjustifiable surplus of care. Doing things that no-one asked for with a love that no-one could reasonably expect.
from Nobody asked for this by Ben Strak
- There are lot of different ways to define great design, but this display of obsessive care over the things that “no-one asked for” is probably my favourite. More than a little neurotic and almost never making financial sense, this desire to go further than required has always seemed to me so noble, a pure expression of the deferred love contained w... See more
from Nobody asked for this by Ben Strak
- Because adding something makes you feel like you are advancing, while taking something away makes you feel like you are retreating. Couple this with the fact that most companies are incentivized to sell us endless “solutions”, and it should come as no surprise that the desire take something away is practically non-existent.
from Take Something Away by Ted Lamade
- I should say too that precision requires attending to necessary detail, not adhering mindlessly to it. This requires both understanding what detail is necessary, and why.
from Iteration X - Vaughn Tan cooks Shizuo Tsuji by Vaughn Tan
- Pseudonyms are a social technology with a deep history.
from Pseudonyms Lets You Practice Agency by Henrik Karlsson
- “Perspective has an expiration date, no matter how hard you try to hold on to it.”
from Running a Fine Dining Restaurant in a Recession
- Identities are interfaces. They mediate between your interiority and the outside world. Each identity provides a set of affordances—things they allow you to do. If you have access to the identity “cop,” you can do and say things that others can’t.
from Pseudonyms Lets You Practice Agency by Henrik Karlsson
- “Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.”
from 3-2-1: On the source of inspiration, the bond between love and grief, and the power of hope by James Clear
- Grief is a giant neon sign, protruding through everything, pointing everywhere, broadcasting loudly, “Love was here.” In the finer print, quietly, “Love still is.”
from 3-2-1: On the source of inspiration, the bond between love and grief, and the power of hope by James Clear