find new patterns to be new
The best design work rarely starts with order. It starts with questions, with play, with a lot of mess. We need tools that make room for that. Because if everything is neatly aligned from the beginning, we may never discover what lies just outside the grid.
When Figma Starts Designing Us / Design Systems International
Optimism is unfashionable today, particularly among intellectuals. Everyone makes fun of it. Someone said "Pessimists got that way by financing optimists." But I am not pessimistic and I advise you not to be. As the fellow said, "I'd be a pessimist but it would never work."
John Gardner • Personal Renewal
Today’s software is far from personal. Unbundling the app is just one important step; we must also invent new interactions around a new set of core primitives.
Embark: Dynamic documents for making plans
let's invert the way to construct a portfolio the other way to construct a
portfolio that's different from how other people do it is to invert and start at 100% waiting and work down
Founders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
it's their willingness to do the work necessary to trust their own judgment that allowed them to arrive at a very valuable earned secret and then the willingness to change their behavior to build their entire partnership around that earned secret
Founders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
Makes me think of embrace naivety -> goal -> obstacles -> questions -> and the your plan and opinion is your earned secret.
but why did you make it xyz“ because it’s fun, because I like it, because why not, because I can, because it doesn’t matter, because no one can tell me not to, because it felt right, because it makes me happy when I look at it, because i don't need a reason
One of the most important skills to learn as a founder is how to use Mixpanel—especially with a very small sample size. This is not something you can delegate because only you will be obsessed enough to make sure your insights are valid.
Almost everyday I see founders get deluded into thinking:
A. They have an onboarding problem—that was actually... See more
Nikita Bierx.comInterstellar made a lot of money to the profit selling wheat for the film. They built a wheat farm instead of cgi and it was a better investment than hiring a cgi studio.
I don’t what to do? How should I choose on what to do next?
Follow your innate curiosity. Paul Graham → Curiosity is the best guide. Your curiosity never lies and knows what’s worth paying attention to.
Related to isabel mind min talking about your heart and your brain that your heart will take in you direction your logical brain can’t
And similar to leland maschemeyer of and diagram of returning to the center. Follow the thread and bring it back to the center