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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?”
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
- There's a cult. Anybody knows this. Go fly to LA and try to go to In-N-Out. Good luck. I was just in LA two months ago. Tried to go to In-N-Out twice because I read the book. I'm not waiting in that line. There's a cult around In-N-Out because the expression of the founder's soul is manifest in the product. People have In-N-Out tattoos. How many pe... See more
from Passion & Pain by Patrick O'Shaughnessy
- The problem with the Lean Startup as a mindset is that it leads to a Minimal Viable Life. And I know many people feel like they’re living one these days. The Lean startup is a mental model that is ultimately not helpful for human flourishing. There are metaphysical, creative, and moral issues with it.
from Why We Need More Omakase Creators by read.lukeburgis.com
- 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
- 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
Competing with giants: An inside look at how The Browser Company builds product | Josh Miller (CEO)
5 highlights
- We went public, and we have more than 50 percent American investors as shareholders. Before going public, I said to them, “Are you looking for a company that grows very fast, that makes profits that are too high, in our view, quick profits? Do not invest in our company. Do you want a company that grows in a gracious way? That allows suppliers to gr... See more
from Brunello Cucinelli by om.co
- 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 The Browser Company