Andrew Tam

Great design engineers are obsessed with understanding the materials of software, all the specific affordances of the medium, and the tools you use to shape them. In my experience, this obsession comes from the drive to make something that has both beauty and intentionality paired with the technical approach that design engineers develop as they st

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Right now our attention spans have never been more exhausted nor our patience more threadbare. Any who pays a moments notice to such matters can feel that this is no way to live, nor run a civilization, nor raise the next generation. Humans need space to explore nuance, to sit with feelings and move through them, to let things unfold quietly, slowl

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Fantastic advice, for software builders:

Headline driven development

Here is a simple process for shipping software projects that works. First, decompose the project into a stream1 of headlines. Then pick an aggressive date to ship the first headline and work like hell to meet that date. Have everyone work only on one headline at a time– the upcomi

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