victoria beukers
@victoriabeukers
victoria beukers
I’m thinking about how the only way to get better at making things is to make things, and to let the thinking happen inside the work – where you can judge a thing based on how it feels – instead of outside the work.
Sari Azout • Things I'm thinking about
Simplicity is difficult because most of us are overcompensating for uncertainty. It takes a deep understanding of beauty and emotional awareness to look at something, long before most people would say it is complete, and say “This is enough.”
Alice Otieno • #057 IRL <> URL
Beauty
The best rooms aren’t finished. They’re practiced. Edited in small, barely perceptible gestures. A table pushed two inches to the left. A lamp that moves from one room to another. A piece you hated until you saw it in a new light. They come together the way trust does: slowly, unevenly, with the occasional argument and the quiet return
Hey, I'm ex-Reddit advisor and sold a community platform to WeWork.
I noticed something BIG recently if you're looking to build cash-flowing internet businesses:
There are 1.8B active users in Facebook Groups in 2024
But I've noticed 95% of paid communities are... See more
Professor Tim Wu made this point in a widely read essay titled “The Tyranny of Convenience,” where he argues that convenience, “with its promise of smooth, effortless efficiency…threatens to erase the sort of struggles and challenges that help give meaning to life.”
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
I think one of the big questions of this decade
Is how do you become “post-algorithmic”
While remaining economically viable
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