Jonathan Quaade
@jonathanquaade
Jonathan Quaade
very day computers offer ever more powerful substitutes for traditional analog tools: calendars become dynamic, weather forecasts get regular updates, driving directions change with traffic predictions, and so forth. But these essential tools live in a restrictive environment dominated by siloed app architectures. Interfaces inside apps, and
... See moreEmbark: Dynamic documents for making plans
be careful with cement it hardens
waaah this exactly what eugene expressed in his talk about how our hardware conforms is because they must be explicitly built to work the nth user not just one user
Even the biggest companies with the deepest pockets are struggling to hire top design talent. And as usual, it comes down to a fundamental misunderstanding of what drives most great designers. They want to be surrounded by other great designers and a culture that cares.
Benji Taylorx.com
How I started using sublime
the democratization of everything as the amateurization of everything.
What risk are we radically underestimating as a species? What are we overestimating?
I think we’ve still underestimated the harms of scrolling. I am careful to say “scrolling” because I don’t think social media is itself a bad thing, nor do I think screens are uniformly bad. I think it’s specifically the act of scrolling, which forces us to ingest,... See more
I think we’ve still underestimated the harms of scrolling. I am careful to say “scrolling” because I don’t think social media is itself a bad thing, nor do I think screens are uniformly bad. I think it’s specifically the act of scrolling, which forces us to ingest,... See more
Nadia Asparouhova • Nadia Asparouhova on antimemetics, nuclear mysticism, and scrolling
Truth Sandwich (George Lakeoff, 2018?): trying to refute an idea can spread it, because your audience is probably not the audience that was first exposed. Another name is prebunking (but committing publicly to a position on something has dangers: if you turn out to be wrong, it will be harder to admit that).
Sean • Knowing Things Is Hard
Stop thinking about the constraints and think about the ideal the childlike future what if Simba had this floating harmless assistant with him? That help him channel his weird idea with Thoughts or exercises that he can do to help him move in the direction help him imagine the future help him realise it’s an idea is the right one not to push but to
... See moreOne 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... See more
Nikita Bierx.com