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A well-designed product isn’t well designed if the process needed to manufacture it is unrealistic or uneconomical.
Matthew Frederick • 101 Things I Learned® in Engineering School
In 1920, New Orleans boasted six pumping stations, including the Melpomene. These allowed “the old swamps” to be drained and converted into new communities, like Lakeview and Gentilly. Today there are twenty-four stations, which together operate one hundred and twenty pumps. During a storm, rain is funneled into a Venice’s-worth of canals. Then it’
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John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
This Is Water David Foster Wallace Commencement Speech
youtube.comIt is as if there were a natural law which ordained that to achieve this end, to refine the curve of a piece of furniture, or a ship’s keel, or the fuselage of an airplane, until gradually it partakes of the elementary purity of the curve of the human breast or shoulder, there must be experimentation of several generations of craftsmen.