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So as organizations grow in scale, the result, as many of us feel intuitively, is the concomitant loss of creativity, flexibility, curiousity, and humanity. Mega scale organizations are not, generally speaking, very nice places to work at, shop at, or do business with, are they? That is why they are always fighting their very own inertia. Like any ... See more

umair haque • Why We Need to Build Human-Scale Organizations

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Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries

Peter Sims

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Cover of Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries

Good habits create good art. The way we do anything is the way we do everything. Treat each choice you make, each action you take, each word you speak with skillful care. The goal is to live your life in the service of art.

Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being

André Chaperon

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101 design rules

Musings, ramblings, and principles that I’ve shared with my team and randomly on Twitter. Reminding yourself of the principles that ground you is simply a good practice. Here are mine.

By Brian Collins

Design is hope made visible.
You can live your life as the result of history and what came before, or you can live your life as the cau

Curators, Curators

It has become popular to say we live in the information age, and we need curation to help us sort through the mess. But thus far, the conversation around “curation” has been too focused on the content and not enough on the structure. We seem to have accepted the job of the curator as providing a product review, a list of links, a... See more

mirror.xyz • Re-Organizing the World’s Information: Why We Need More Boutique Search Engines

Go too far to please the audience and you become a hack. Lose your point of view, lose your reason for doing the work, become a hack. Focus only on the results, become a hack. On the other hand, if you ignore what you see and simply create for yourself, you’ve walked away from empathy. If there is no change, there is no art. The professional unders