Connection
Internet Phone Book
shashaank added 4mo ago
- The adjacent possible is about taking two seemingly unconnected ideas and metaphorically placing them next to each other to see how they might work together.
from “Stealing Your Way to Original Designs,” an article by Dan Mall by Dan Mall
shashaank added 19d ago
Are these connections or intersections?
shashaank added 25d ago
Optimize for legacy, not empire. Empires die because they’re alone, legacies live because they involve others.
-OH, on building teams and brand communities
shashaank added 24d ago
People hire services not just based on what they can do but how it makes them feel.
from Craft by Paul Stamatiou
shashaank added 25d ago
- I feel such intense gratitude when I read a book by someone who, for a brief moment, makes me feel less alone in the world and makes these complicated things in my brain feel a little easier to understand.
from On What Makes a Good Writer with Kevin Wilson by Kevin Wilson
shashaank added 15d ago
- Increase social support
Social support is the last coping strategy on the list, and it’s perhaps my favorite one.
If you give a primate a stressor in the lab, you’ll find elevated markers of stress in its behavior and in its blood. But give the primate a stressor when it’s surrounded by friends—its stress markers will be lower, even for the same lev... See morefrom How Hard Should I Push Myself? by Dan Shipper
shashaank added 21d ago
- Building a T-shaped knowledge graph means aggressively diversifying your information sources, spreading out wider to seemingly unrelated areas and capturing the advantage of being at the beginning of the diminishing returns curve where you’re constantly exposed to new ideas. It also means being selectively ignorant about certain things. You have to... See more
from Information Nutrition by Jean Louis
shashaank added 20d ago
- Grid system design should begin with a constraint. Something that is knowable and unchangeable. This constraint is used to build the modules of your grid. In book design, that constraint is defined by the page through subdivision. Book designers take the page, divide it up into a modular grid of spaces. These spaces (called modules) are then combin... See more
from A Richer Canvas - Mark Boulton
shashaank added 19d ago
Content out