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September 04, 2010
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"It’s really a project that was born because we wanted to do fun things with media again. I mean, I love my day job, too, but… it’s really difficult to find the time to put together these finely-tuned packages that both have great content and that also kind of channel the user experience…"

— Alexis Madrigal on Longshot (via: CJR’s “Q&A: Longshot co-founder Alexis Madrigal”)

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July 25, 2010
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"When you’re buying into Mac, you’re buying into an ideology. You’re buying into a community."

— The Atlantic’s Alexis Madrigal from “The Varieties of Religious Experience: How Apple Stays Divine”

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July 24, 2010
"In other words, editors do the things for text that designers did for visual products. They standardize rules; they enforce consistency; they provide the key for the map; they make things right"

— “Why Editing Could Make a Comeback” from Alexis Madrigal (The Atlantic)

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