💬 QuoteWise
Still quotes - but quotes that emerge from my long history with a great little service call Readwise.
More serendipity
No surprise that a Fowles quote surfaced this morning, he is after all one of my favorites.
The surprise lay in the relevance to a conversation with friends last night.
Topic
How society and norms morph over time, by dint of individual actions.
First learning, then adapting followed by experimentation and pushing boundaries to ultimately creating.
The Crafting of Craft.
🖇️ Talking about knowing what you’re talking about - nobody who knows what they are talking about would confuse me with a real programmer.
That said, I just read 🔗 Going the Extra Mile — Beyond CSS, most of which is well above my technical pay grade - but still I was fascinated by the attention to detail around ‘crafting Craft’.
Consider - a whole post (well 75%) devoted to the process behind getting a check box ‘just right’ and the remaining 25% explaining ‘push away’, which I knew had to be coded in some way - but who knew there is a phrase for it?
Great read - even if you aren’t technical you get the idea of their focus on good design - Steve would have been proud of them
“When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.”
💬 Steve Jobs
… which probably explains why they won app of the year and were name called (not once - but twice) in this year’s WWDC.
The article ends with …
All of this for what? Will all users see the difference? — Probably not. Was it worth it? — Absolutely. These are the minor details that often go unnoticed when present, but become conspicuous when missing. We strive for having as many of those details as possible, making the experience great but at the same time — seamless.
Kudos to Craft - a Great App and a serious tool for writing documents in the 21st Century.
💬 5 Reminders
It’s Saturday - so just sorting out things that I saved and never did anything with - but these 5 - I dunno - good reminders.
In case anyone is confused …
… or stupid.
A solid reminder that I need from time to time.
The idea behind this one often resurfaces in my mind (not the precise words mind), but I find the essence to be a good reminder of the importance of stepping away. It isn’t really what he is asking about - but still right.
He’s talking about WeWork and Uber.
And kind of related to 🖇️ that (the previous post) - but this is ‘Ted’.
🔗 How the Ultra-Wealthy Think About Money
For the ultra-wealthy, money is effectively not finite. It’s just a resource to be pointed at any burning thing. I know you’re looking at your banking app saying $broke and wondering, “how can this be?” and yet: it is true. The most counter intuitive thing is that, not only is the money faucet boundless for them, but in fact, most of the money coming out of the faucet is not their own. People who control large pools of money are very, very eager to let billionaires use their money.
