Britt Backos

“It matters where you get your dopamine. Get your dopamine from clarifying your ideas more than from their visibility.”

Taste is discernment expressed: informed judgment plus the courage to show it. It only exists once you make a choice. ‘Discernment’ as in having a judgment based on a strong set of references, understanding the differences between things, and being able to articulate why you like or dislike something. ‘Expressed’ as in you have to make choices;You

My one-liner is: in a world of scarcity, you want tools; in a world of abundance, you want taste.

When people talk about AI, they’re so serious but a lot of the most fun use cases are making yourself laugh and just messing around. And that’s what’s so fun about AI is you just have this kaleidoscope and every time you turn it gives you different information. Laughter kind of turns off your prefrontal cortex and it just gets you in sort of a more

One of the core things that you can measure society on is how beautiful the things that they make are.

Building solo increases quality and velocity. You are short circuiting the loop between product, engineering and design. Too many people causes you to lose fidelity and vision.

French writer and poet Rene Daumalreminds us that it's not about what we achieve, but who we become in the process:

"You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one

But you’re not just unpacking the job; you’re also unpacking yourself. Do any aspects of this job resemble things you’ve done before, and did you like doing those things? Not “Did you like being known as a person who does those things?” or “Do you like having done those things?” but when you were actually doing them, did you want to stop, or did