
A conversation with Mills Baker, Head of Design at Substack

What they're really good for is starting from nothing and building stuff that doesn't have to support a lot of weight. So you'll see these guys who post things like, I coded a thing for my fucking TV in two days. And you're like, yeah, it's not that hard to go from zero to a thing for your TV. Now try to modify Facebook so that it works in a... See more
Mills Baker • A conversation with Mills Baker, Head of Design at Substack
I think back to these technologies that get hyped a lot like crypto. For several years, everywhere you went, people were telling you about how crypto was going to change everything. It was going to end the reign of fiat currency and lead to new political structures. And one of the things I used to say back then is, if any of that's true, you won't... See more
Mills Baker • A conversation with Mills Baker, Head of Design at Substack
almost everything I write or think about is either too particular for convergence machines like LLMs to have anything to say about it, or I want to know what I think or what the people I work with think or what the market I work with thinks, which again, is particular. So, you know, it can give me some kind of general point of view on social media.... See more