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When Things Take Shape
Hamed and added
- Another emotion I picked up in myself and in others is what feels like we’re floating in space a bit. Since the change is so fundamental and a lot of things aren’t figured out, it’s quite hard to navigate yourself within Buffer currently, since nothing feels “fixed” and ever changing these last few months.
I do get the sense that this is somewhat ta... See morefrom How We're Working Without Managers at Buffer
Britt Gage added
The build is taxing. Empathy with yourself and others who are building alongside you is crucial.
sari and added
And yet, in so much modern software today, you’re placed in a drab gray cubicle — anonymized and aggregated until you’re just a daily active user. For minimalism. For simplicity. For scale! But if our hope is to create software with feeling, it means inviting people in to craft it for themselves — to mold it to the contours of their unique lives an
... See morefrom Optimizing for Feelings by browsercompany.substack.com
Reza Saeedi and added
- Start with an ambitious, high-potential idea, but challenging and full of ambiguities — the rough shape of a nascent great idea. It typically isn’t new, but solves many problems in a simpler, more intuitive way. It ignites people’s curiosity and self-motivation. At the end, it should seem “obvious” so that others want to copy, because there aren’t ... See more
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Nicolay Gerold added
- Some companies go all in on the ecstasy - ‘here’s our magical vision for the future’. Others commit to the laundry - look at our rich feature-set isn’t it amazing?”
from 2023 end of year letter by sublimeinternet.substack.com
Agalia Tan added
this captures how I feel about vector, we still exist in that liminal space between ideation and creation. It’s exciting and frightening all at the same time and I take comfort in struggling to find the words because that means it’s something new!
Everything That Turned Out Well in My Life Followed the Same Design Process
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Nick Nikolov and added