Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what George Saunders and Paul Graham said
taste Whether good and bad exist in made things, and how a maker comes to tell them apart.
On the topicWho should design software, and how?under our view: One person of taste has to be in charge, because design by committee is bad design
Their wordsAnd that there might come a moment, while reading a new, just-edited-for-the-thousandth-time draft, where that true self, or voice, pops out at you, suddenly revealed, as if someone else, not you, had done it.
Where this was said
↗On the Perils of Self-Assessing...georgesaunders.substack.com
All 6 korrents from this piecethis one is 3rd
Their wordsBut if you just try to make good things, you'll inevitably do it in a distinctive way, just as each person walks in a distinctive way. Michelangelo was not trying to paint like Michelangelo. He was just trying to paint well; he couldn't help painting like Michelangelo. The only style worth having is the one you can't help.
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Do you hold this korrent?Do you also believe this?
I hold this tooShared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.