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- every great institution is the extended shadow of a single person.
from Create the social spaces you want to see in the world by Kasra
companies are a fingerprint of the people who make them. which begs the question: “what does a you-shaped X look like?”
- To call iBooks a throwaway “feature” of iOS is too dismissive, but the output does not give off the impression of a thing that must exist in the world, and must exist at the highest level of grace.
from Offscreen Magazine Interview by Craig Mod
you can sense when a product is crafted with grace
on the footer of the amie.so site
- Build a world. Make your projects and work a vessel for self-expression. Make your software match your vibe. Make reading your book feel like it feels to talk with you. Customize, make it bespoke, put yourself into it instead of doing what you feel you should. This has all kinds of benefits (reducing burn out for instance) but especially helps with... See more
from Be an idea expander
in other words, be a human, not a machine
- Increasingly, the work that stand out will be more raw and incomplete (because — by definition — new ideas haven’t been optimized because…they are new).
Eno explains:
"[On one end, you have] auto-tune that perfectly puts music into tune…which is sort of flawless and faultless. [In contrast, the other side] is clumsy, awkward, crude and unfinished thi... See more