EXEIO CORP. Philosophy Sources & influences
I don’t build in a vacuum.
Taste is a discipline, and a discipline has sources. Two books and two essayists trained the judgement that now gets written into the software: work by hand, make something new, and ship it before you feel ready.
- Books
- Creative Selection · Zero to One
- References
- Paul Graham · Marc Andreessen
- Method
- Iteration over specification
What shaped how I see it
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01Creative Selection
Fifteen years at Apple shaping the iPhone keyboard and Safari, one demo at a time. The book shows that a good product is built by hand, through iteration and taste — not derived from a spec document.
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02Zero to One
Going from zero to one — making something that didn’t exist — matters more than duplicating what already works elsewhere. This is the book that pushes me to build products rather than variants.
People who inspire me
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01Paul Graham
His essays are a compass: make something people want, do the things that don’t scale while you still can, and iterate fast instead of planning everything up front.
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02Marc Andreessen
“Software is eating the world” and “It’s Time to Build” sum up an unapologetic technological optimism: build aggressively rather than commentate from the stands.
Taste isn’t a mood. It’s a position — and a position can be written into software and shipped.