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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
- 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 What’s so beautiful about creating products is that saying it in a poetic way, if you have that passion it naturally starts waves and those waves connect people.
from The founder of Teenage Engineering opens up to his creative space
- The ultimate competitive advantage is actually giving a shit about the problem you're working on. When Airbnb had just a few dozen employees, Rocket Internet raised $90 million and hired hundreds of people to clone and crush them.
from Tweet by Stew Fortier
millions of dollars of funding can't compete with a company having a soul
- there’s simply no way around the fact that we’re pretty fed up with a certain philosophical framework in Silicon Valley. It has many names: the growth mindset. OKRs. KPIs. Even Minimalism — the predominant aesthetic of our era. But at its core, it all comes down to one thing: the relentless optimization of everything in our world.
this mindset has l... See morefrom Optimizing for Feelings by browsercompany.substack.com
today we launched 🪴Boosts v2🌴 in Arc. a collection of simple tools that let you edit the internet and make it your own (mostly without code!) a thread of my favorite artifacts from this project: early prototypes, fun design details, and deleted scenes 🧵:
