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We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief.
The Marginalian • Buckminster Fuller’s Manifesto for the Genius of Generalists
A-list artistry is not born of technical prowess, but of clarity of purpose.1
Tonianne DeMaria Barry • Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life
Less but better.
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Liberal use of "MVP" or "it's just an experiment". Does the team use those terms to skirt around typical quality standards and ship something subpar? Does everything worked on, even experiments, demand the same care as a more mainstream release that goes out to all users?
Paul Stamatiou • Craft
hallmark of true expertise and insight is making a complex subject understandable. A hallmark of mediocrity and bad strategy is unnecessary complexity—a flurry of fluff masking an absence of substance.
Richard Rumelt • Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters
Mathematician Jim Simons on being guided by beauty:
“You might think 'building a company that's trading bonds, what's so aesthetic about that?' What's aesthetic about it is doing it right. Getting the right kind of people, approaching the problem, and doing it right it's a beautiful thing to do something right.”
“You might think 'building a company that's trading bonds, what's so aesthetic about that?' What's aesthetic about it is doing it right. Getting the right kind of people, approaching the problem, and doing it right it's a beautiful thing to do something right.”
Burnham’s exceptional systems-level thinking, with one describing him as “the architect” of this framework. Another referred to him as “deeply smart,” with a gift for “figuring out where the world is going.”