Steyn Viljoen
@steyn
Designer at CustomerOS. Gardener. Dad. Write at Viljoen Space about product, gardening and parenthood.
Steyn Viljoen
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- We lost our soul and growth was slow and I failed to raise a Series A investment round and Ebay.
Gardening offers an endless supply of these kinds of "neutralizers for perfectionism," as Lamp'l called them. He confessed to being a perfectionist himself and knows firsthand that "pursuit of perfection is a waste of time—especially in the garden. So don't bother!"
from 10 Mental Health Benefits of Gardening by Psychology Today
- Soon our social feeds and search engines will be engulfed beneath a tidal wave of mechanistic mediocrity. It’ll be impossible to sift through it all. People will begin tuning out and retreating into quieter, safer corners of the internet, populated by the small handful of humans they trust.
- When it comes to established environments that serve the needs of as many people as possible, experts agree that public parks are the closest we have to an ideal third place. Parks are preferably welcoming to all members of the community for a variety of activities; they ideally have bathrooms, water fountains, and cooling tree cover; they’re free ... See more
- what’s dystopian always involves surveillance and monetization, what’s utopian is unmonetized and unsurveilled.
from 12 Questions for Jia Tolentino by Gordon Glasgow
Following this logic, our brains reward a kept garden because it staves off wilderness, because in the wilderness there is death, and thus by keeping nature controlled and orderly, we keep death away.
Landscape maintenance is, therefore, an exercise of fear.from Landscape Maintenance and the Fear of Death - Wonderground
- If you know to look, you can feel the difference between software crafted with care for its users and systems of vacuous tradition that just happen to be good at producing the vapid fodder of convenience.
from Retrofuturism by stealing
- Large market size💰: By building opinionated software, you deliberately leave a large share of the market unexploited — it’s not a “lowest common denominator” approach. Fortunately, the overall category of productivity software represents a very large market (mainly because it’s industry-agnostic). Therefore, even a slice of the market is often suf... See more
from The Era of Opinionated Productivity Software: Superhuman, Roam, What’s Next? | HackerNoon by Felix Schmitt
- Techno-Industrials are addressing larger markets than most software companies can.
They use whichever tools they need to provide better solutions to key bottlenecks with better unit economics than incumbents.
They are more capital efficient than most investors expect.
And they have to be more strategically sound than the average software company.
B... See morefrom Better Tools, Bigger Companies