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Do Less Better, and This Time I Mean It

For a whole lotta years now (7 for sure, though I think it goes back even farther than that) I’ve been preaching a simple mantra. Originally it started as a part of working in web development, marketing, and strategy:

Do Less Better.

I issued this command out of concern for the amount of things I was watching my peers being asked to do – particularly without resources – which was compromising

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How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

by Stewart Brand

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H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction (Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection)

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