The Hidden Language of Building

11 Sept

: Why some businesses take time to figure out the languages of building not from lack of value, but from misalignment with the system they enter....read the full edition on Substack

Irene Jena Karthik

"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts." — Aristotle

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." — Charles Darwin

"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." — Steve Jobs

"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order." — Alfred North Whitehead

"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts." — Aristotle "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." — Charles Darwin "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." — Steve Jobs "The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order." — Alfred North Whitehead

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