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i want to make software that feels like magic
Rocket launches are big, once-in-a-while events, but technology can create more quotidian magic, too. Jumping into a chat room with my friends on AIM when I was younger was magical. Meeting someone at a party in college and coming home to the Friend Request on Facebook was magical. Pulling up all of the world’s music on Spotify from my phone for th... See more
Not Boring by Packy McCormick • Indistinguishable from Magic
Like a hit song, software does better when more people are part of it. And it’s more likely that people will participate in software that’s resilient, inspectable, connected and always improving. The hard part might not be the idea–it’s in creating the conditions for others to participate.
The biggest challenges we face aren’t technical.
They are psychological, philosophical–questions of values, ethics, worldviews.
Just as we are living inside Zuckerberg’s belief in instant connection.
And Steve Jobs’ dream of the computer as a bicycle for the mind…
We are already stepping into the world imagined by Sam Altman.
But what is his vision of a
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the best software products aren’t just assemblages of functionality, exposed by particular formal elements (links, buttons, icons, menus). Rather, they organize and shape how you think, and they create or sustain a particular lifestyle
Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity
If you consider yourself a technologist, here’s your imperative: build things that are unabashedly, beautifully tangled into all else in life — people and relationships, politics, emotion and pain, understanding or the lack thereof, being alone, being together, homesickness, adventure, victory, loss. Build things that come alive, and drag everythin... See more