sparks
Productivity, for me, is a natural outgrowth of passion. If I need to think about “productivity” as a separate discipline from “doing the thing,” something has gone wrong.
Sasha Chapin • What Maximum Productivity Looks Like for Me
“don’t complain about being in traffic. you are the traffic.”
I regret to inform you that personal growth rarely comes from acquiring new knowledge and always from periods of intense humility (i.e. your ego finally relenting)
No souls were sold in the making.
Arielle Richards • Please Stop Making Social Networks
the new certified organic label for websites?
The cowards never started and the weak died along the way. That leaves us, ladies and gentlemen. Us.
Phil Knight • Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Jesper tells a story about how he is currently working on designing a new type of organ. In preparation for this, he’s been playing an organ he bought, it in house… for the past 5 years.
Shortly later in conversation Dylan asks, “do you believe in user research?” To which Jesper immediately says, “uhh… no.”
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Shortly later in conversation Dylan asks, “do you believe in user research?” To which Jesper immediately says, “uhh… no.”
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Hipcityreg on the conversation between Dylan (Figma) and Jesper (Teenage Engineering)
being really deliberate about the layers where you are nimble & fast vs. the lower-down frameworks that should move more slowly and deliberately.
Trust and attention are in a long dance, but only trust wins in the long run.