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The Timeless Way of Building - David Perell

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I’m reading The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander. It’s excellent. It’s a book about life and nature, disguised as a book about architecture and design. At times, it reads like poetry or religious scripture. As I was reading the book, I realized that masters of their craft work with less information, not more. Painters focus on

I’m reading The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander. It’s excellent. It’s a book about life and nature, disguised as a book about architecture and design. At times, it reads like poetry or religious scripture. As I was reading the book, I realized that masters of their craft work with less information, not more. Painters focus on the essence of an object. Investors focus on needle-moving variables. Experts always surprise me. They consistently focus on 2-3 variables. But within those variables, they see layers of nuance and shades of complexity. They find the difference that make

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