A cruel reminder for most designers because it is the simple reality.

You serve the brief, nothing more. You're hired as a tool to solve a business problem.

But some designers are able to transcend this. They solve problems while also expressing an original worldview with their solution. It's when your work carries utility, necessity and meaning... See more

says every startup now needs a founding creator. Someone who speaks for the product before it ships.

"The founding engineer is the how... The founding creator is the why."

Limit the number of details and make every detail perfect.

i've learned that my greatest fear is the loss of my autonomy

Ho Nam

@honam

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I loved this observation by Safal.

“He showed me that a meaningful life doesn’t have to be dramatic. Sometimes it’s just showing up every day and doing the simple things... again and again... for years, without worrying about what the world thinks of you.”

Advice I'd give younger self: Don't aim for happiness, peace or success. Aim for aliveness. Make decisions based on what makes you feel the most alive behind your eyes. And if you achieve aliveness regularly, common side effects include happiness, peace and success.

Fizzy is fully free to self-host, and now we have much better instructions for how to do just that. N

The counter point is, remember all the website clone templates you could buy back in the day for a social network, online forum product, a CRM system, building a cloud, etc. Yet for some reason none of them made a dent in any market.

It just turns out something very big separates the teams that want to build a real company that constantly innovates,... See more

We were born to be killed and we're descended from those who refused to die.