Taste, Perseverance, and Kanye West

1: The Growing Importance of Taste

“Everyone’s software is good enough. Software used to be the weapon, now it’s just a tool.

In a world of scarcity, we treasure tools. In a world of abundance, we treasure taste. The barriers to entry are low, competition is fierce, and so much of the focus has shifted — from tech to distribution, and now, to something else too: taste.”

Taste is eating software. Taste is the new weapon. Whether in design, branding, or user experience, taste now defines how a product is perceived and felt as well as how it is adopted, i.e. distributed (whether it’s software or hardware or both).”

Source: Taste Is Eating Silicon Valley by Anu Atluru

2: Marie Curie on Perseverance

Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two scientific fields, once said: "I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy."

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."

Source: The Nobel Prize, Marie Curie

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