Karri Saarinen on X: "@patrickc on Stripe: “My intuition is that more of Stripe success than one would think is down to the fact that people like beautiful things and for rational reasons. Because, what does a beautiful thing tell you? It tells you the person who made it really cared, and you can…" / X

To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Messages Home Explore Notifications Messages Lists Bookmarks Top Articles Communities Verified Orgs Profile More Post Eden Chan @onlychans1 Post See new posts Conversation Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen @patrickc on Stripe: “My intuition is that more of Stripe success than one would think is down to the fact that people like beautiful things and for rational reasons. Because, what does a beautiful thing tell you? It tells you the person who made it really cared, and you can observe some superficial details, but probably they didn’t only care about those and did everything in else in slapdash way. So, if you care about the infrastructure being holistically good, indexing on the superficial characteristics is not an irrational thing to do.“ Couldn't have said better and proud to have Patrick as an investor in @linear . We shouldn't accept poorly made things and that lack beauty. 9:44 PM · Oct 17, 2023 · 150K

Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen @ patrickc on Stripe: “My intuition is that more of Stripe success than one would think is down to the fact that people like beautiful things and for rational reasons. Because, what does a beautiful thing tell you? It tells you the person who made it really cared, and you can observe some superficial details, but probably they didn’t only care about those and did everything in else in slapdash way. So, if you care about the infrastructure being holistically good, indexing on the superficial characteristics is not an irrational thing to do.“ Couldn't have said bett

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