The Economist and Apple are examples of cultures with extraordinarily high standards where work has primacy and workers are anonymous because the work speaks for itself.
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“the second is cultures of of perfection um and so both the economist and apple have extraordinarily high standards for themselves and and really kind of in both cases the work has a kind of primacy and so who designed the latest iphone or who wrote that article in both cases that's anonymous because there's such a belief that the work speaks for itself right”
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Patrick Collison: Philosophies for Running Stripe, Hiring, Decision Making, and Reading— The Knowledge Project PodcastCreated: 8/10/2026, 11:17:01 PM
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