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Class is an interconnected set of culture, scripted behaviors, and the advantages and disadvantages that attach to them.

Culture as the ultimate accountability system

At its best, culture isn’t a poster on a wall or a paragraph in a mission statement. It’s the operating system that lets people communicate, execute and hold one another accountable without endless escalation or micromanagement.

Plus, most ambitious ideas seem wrong at first. If a new idea was obviously good, someone else would have already done it.

Digital maps can behave in a dynamic fashion because they are powered by data. When we use a map, data is both informing and responding to our actions to help us contextualize digital space.

“Inspiration comes on the twenty-fifth attempt, not the first. If you want to make something excellent, don’t wait for a brilliant idea to strike. Create twenty-five of what you need and one will be great. Inspiration reveals itself after you get the average ideas out of the way, not before you take the first step.”

Taste and craft are not about endless design reviews. Taste is finely-tuned intuition for what differentiates good from great — and perhaps more importantly, the ability to explain why.

Almost every social network of note had an early signature proof of work hurdle. For Facebook it was posting some witty text-based status update. For Instagram, it was posting an interesting square photo. For Vine, an entertaining 6-second video. For Twitter, it was writing an amusing bit of text of 140 characters or fewer. Pinterest? Pinning a... See more

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