What Sam Schillace thinks about creativity
Technologist; deputy CTO at Microsoft, earlier co-founder of Writely, which Google bought and built Google Docs on, and a Google engineering leader on Gmail, Blogger, Picasa and Maps.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Sam Schillace has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsCode was always just a tool - the creativity was the interesting part.
↗If it’s easy, it’s not worth much. sundaylettersfromsam.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece