Andrew McCluskey
@andrewmcc
Creator / Contributor at musicto
Andrew McCluskey
andrewmccluskey.com
The Germans have a single word for a face that’s badly in need of a fist - “Backpfeifengesicht ”.
The 52 things I learned in 2024 - Sulluzzu
Cool and Remind me Often
Optimism through a lifetime of misery isn’t luck or delusion. It's discipline disguised as temperament, paid for in a thousand grueling moments when they strangled their own knee-jerk pessimism.
Parakeet • Skittle Factory Dementia Monkey Titty Monetization
This!
Endorsements
- On-boarding Really seamless - didn't feel too restrictive and well - proof of the pudding is that I'm using it fairly seamlessly.
- missing the new tab functionality on the browser app = that sounded like a really good idea for serendipity - but I did spend a while looking for it - reckoned its deprecated
- I use different browsers for different
Fabrice Bellard - read this
Think back …
Way way way back to the early days of web2.0.
Feeds were the new thing and social graphs were open.
Products like Spotify, Yelp and Zynga all leveraged this open social layer to grow massive user bases and billion dollar valuations.... See more
Jesstwitter.com
Quantified status also drives entire industries. Influencer marketing is a $24B market growing quickly. The industry is built on status associations. We see this clearly in the 2010s rise of “the lifestyle influencer”—lifestyles are the most obvious markers of status, and the influencer economy is built on aspiration .
Clicks & Clout: How We Seek Status In the Digital Age
referencing the blue model influencers / creators / TLs
Design is such a powerful word. It means everything and so means nothing. And our practice of design really was the whole thing. Ultimately, it was your experience. From the very founding ideas of what the product is and what it does and how it’s architected and how it’s built—its appearance is just one small part of the whole thing.