Itay Dreyfus
@itay
Designer, always exploring.
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A “small giant” is a company that chooses to optimize for mojo instead of growth.
Small Giants // Metamuse podcast episode 24
made this little zine with @inchkev earlier this year and forgot to post about it! 🪁 "Twelve (12) things to do with your essay after you turn it in" is about the value of self-publishing and finding purpose in the work you do at school.
We just uploaded a PDF copy on Are.na so you can read the whole thing online -... See more
kaloyanezinstagram.comEven subscriber counts were originally capped at 2,000. You couldn’t even pay to raise the limit.
Kevin Nguyen • TinyLetter had a big moment
Online, we need to make the big feel smaller, in the right ways. The challenge to start small from something that is currently controlled by Facebook and Google, is very hard. But people are doing it. Look at The Correspondent, or Open Culture, or Brain Pickings, or thousands of other small projects that have good communities around them. We need... See more
Vicki Boykis • Good things don't scale
We are shifting from the mode of “surging” on Tumblr with tons of people to get it to exciting growth, to working on how we can run Tumblr in the most smooth and efficient manner. Pretty amazing things in the social and messaging space have been accomplished with small teams, so I’m actually quite curious to see a smaller and more focused Tumblr’s... See more
Allegra Rosenberg • Tumblr is betting big on going small
I have some great memories of talking about “investing in things that doesn’t change”
A sense that small things tend less to dramatic changes
https://world.hey.com/dhh/there-are-no-secrets-left-c8c95de0