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our end of year 2023 letter , attempting to define who we are and articulating the challenge of building a company rooted in both practical utility (t

Care Doesn’t Scale

design is the embodiment of values. Design is the ultimate commitment to or compromise of one’s values. And this is how we go about the world. We make

When Times New Roman appears in a book, document, or advertisement, it connotes apathy. It says, “I submitted to the typeface of least resistance.” Ti

Generating Agency Through Blogging

two ways people grow their online presence: 🔚 assuming your audience a priori and building it 🔜 being authentic online and finding out who your audie

In the last five years they have released more than 100 products.

Really unpopular opinion for designers: it's easier, more joyful and beneficial to do free work for someone you like, than design and release your per

But he and Ross still come to work, daily, in search of transcendence.

Every weekday, Trent Reznor makes his way from his house, a cottagey sprawl behind a white wall in a canyon on Los Angeles’s Westside, to a studio he’

They are more like the rules of the product, conscious choices towards a desired behavioral end.

Along those lines, I believe that mechanics design is a distinct discipline separate from both interface design and product management. I believe it d

How many platforms had a distinct voice?

Even subscriber counts were originally capped at 2,000. You couldn’t even pay to raise the limit.

The site feels like a chaotic newsroom with the cutting room floor exposed. I think that’s part of the excitement — and good design.

To clarify, my definition of design goes beyond aesthetic qualities and into areas of maintenance, cost, profitability, speed, and purpose.

It’s generic list of links, black and white monospaced font, and ALL CAPS headlines have survived every trend, every fad, every movement, every era, e

By yielding a generational wealth creation opportunity that was a strange hybrid of a lottery jackpot and self-made fortune, crypto created an ideolog

For example, it was 30 years after the invention of film that someone first tried telling stories with it — before that, film was mainly used as a dem

Just a moment...

How do you explain the web to people who have never used it? You make it as simple and as accessible as possible.

I came of age in the Napster days, when only fools spent money on anything digital. Early on, we decided that we’d rather pay for the internet with at

One mistake I often used to make at Justin.tv was offering a potpourri of business models (virtual goods, product placement, chat ads, contests, etc..

The problem in media isn’t the business model. The problem is that most of the content sucks.

Communities = Human Search Engines?

Groups are hard to form in the first place. Think of how many random Discord communities you were invited into the past few years and how many are sti

Recently I thought about the heyday of bookmarking apps – Pocket, del.icio.us, Pinboard, Pinterest, etc. It seems that many are still around. Or ma

Recently I thought about the heyday of bookmarking apps – Pocket, del.icio.us, Pinboard, Pinterest, etc. It seems that many are still around. Or ma

WHY NOTEBOOKS? Major reasons: Reduce Repeated Thinking Prevent Lost Porgress Observe Mind Minor reasons: Storage and Retrieval Living Strategicl

A great thing about taking notes is that it subtly encourages you to live a ‘notes-worthy life’ You end up seeking interesting conversations to build

pretty clear that collecting cultural ephemera is a new consumer behavior that’s going to become a core part of life on the internet

Books you read are sending you input. Your friends modeling behaviors for you. Newspapers. Tools. People you follow on Twitter. The architecture of a

The dream isn’t just to show all of ourselves unfiltered to the world. It’s to find a character that we feel comfortable being, that we deeply resonat