Brad Barrish

@bradbarrish

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Figma isn’t just design software: it’s a collaboration platform for making software. I call it the OS for design. That, by extension, means that Figma is much better positioned than it might seem for AI: instead of an agent making everything, agents will work alongside humans, with Figma as the coordination layer.

Ben Thompson • 2025.31: How to Think About Figma

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Your attention please

From Bored

Project Lazarus is an initiative to acquire and permanently preserve the full, unfiltered operational history of defunct or inactive companies at scale. We focus on private codebases, version histories, internal documentation, post-mortems, experimentation logs, infrastructure tooling, and everyday work artifacts that collectively reflect how real... See more

Turing • Tweet

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Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson Addresses the 2025 LMU Undergraduate Commencement

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Life and Is This Real Life?

Questlove is a treasure to humanity.

The irony is that I now know more than I ever would have before AI. But I feel slightly dumber. A bit more dull.

Dustin Curtis on Svbtle • Thoughts on Thinking

AI AI Captain and AI

This whole post is very good. I don’t know whether Dustin is a canary or not, but he’s poking at some things I’ve been feeling to some degree.

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the fact that everything is ‘possibly’ fake and inconvenient or expensive to consider, means that most people just stop trusting most things as true (which in turn massively opens up what can happen, because you can just claim anything is fake and enough people will believe your or be unwilling or unable to sort out reality anyway) — this can also

SWL Week in Review

We're all going to die and Is This Real Life?

Bits of Sam Lessin’s latest email newsletter haven’t left me since I read it. I think you sign up on his website. Sorry, he doesn’t seem to have archives on the web anywhere.

by far the most useful preventative medical advice that I've ever received has come from unleashing coding agents on my genome, having them investigate my specific mutations, and having them recommend specific follow-on tests and treatments.

Patrick Collison • Tweet

Is there a doctor in the house? and

Twitter thread from @dieworkwear | annotated by Brad

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Why would I send you to the hell site when I can just post this exceptional tweetstorm about why that sweater costs $500 publicly on Reader?