Andrei Stoica

Context > consistency

Following a formula can be comforting, but when it comes to design, we think designing around the current context is better than designing to satisfy prior consistency.

There’s a fascinating On Being interview with Nick Cave from a couple years ago, where he discussed his belief that “ Religion is spirituality with rigor .” Whereas religion actively asks something of us, he explained, spirituality can feel squishier, less demanding and therefore, he implied, less rewarding.

»Pay attention to anything that makes you feel good in your body, mind, and spirit—something that nurtures these three aspects of your being. Is there an alternative life out there for you that would fulfill these three pillars?«

— Cortney Cassidy in Growing beyond the computer.

What would it look like if, in a McLuhan-esque, medium is the message sort of way, our tools said to us:

It’s gonna take you a while.

It’s normal to take a while.

It’d be weird if you made something beautiful so quickly.

The problem isn’t that you’re not working fast enough.

The problem is your expectations are not realistic.

Our AI helps you slow the... See more

Engineering organizations today have ballooned to huge numbers of people, but these huge engineering organizations don’t exactly have a reputation for high velocity output. Some of this is the result of what happens with products at scale: it is just fundamentally faster and easier to iterate, improve, or change a product with 100 users than it is... See more