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Why Building

Where product & tech meets philosophy

A publication by Giuseppe Della Corte Essays

Hope, Faith, and Love are all that matter. Building products & startups, writing, reading, and crafting narratives help me keep these gentle flames alive.

This is because product building and writing share “the operative link between Imagination and the final result, Sub-creation”1, and what is called melachah: purposeful, creative work done with intention2.

This is what I seek in every venture.

This is what I write about here: insights from my indie hacking, startup founding & product building journey, from the products I use and the builders behind them. And the thoughts that come up while building.

Essays · newest first

  1. Pixel art: a lone figure on a hill stares into a spiral void while a bonfire burns on the opposite hill Story 01 · · 10 min Why do we want to build? Looking for the First Principle behind the burning desire of building products & startups Read →
  1. J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy-Stories. ↩
  2. Melachah: the Hebrew word for creative, purposeful work. ↩

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