Lillian Sheng
@lillian
Lillian Sheng
1. moment-based experiences
Kushaan Shah • #46: Is There a Cooler Future for Giving Gifts?
Designers and developers are willing to collaborate but are facing key challenges:
- Their tools are not connected (Figma for designers | Microsoft Visual Studio and Github for developers)
- They don’t speak the same language
- Design tools produce images that developers have to translate into code
- It’s impossible to preserve a brand identity across all its
Alexandre Dewez • 🐙 Backing Specify
PART I - GOAL SETTING Y ou should set your goals so that you achieve them 85.13% of the time.
every.to • The Neuroscience of Achieving Your Goals
When asked about treasury management tools, only a small handful of our respondents mentioned using Gnosis Safe multisig wallets, which allow DAOs to support treasury security by requiring multiple signers for treasury transactions and are common amongst investment DAOs. Only two DAOs in our study have used Snapshot to carry out community votes... See more
The state of music DAOs - Water & Music
Slightly controversial aesthetics cater to the leading edge of consumer culture, a large population willing to spend money in order to maintain its status. As this group consumes, the cultural Overton window shifts to accommodate more and more radical aesthetics, which lose their novel status as they become normalized. The cultural normalcy... See more
Toby Shorin • Report: The Diminishing Marginal Value of Aesthetics
I read a David Lynch book about meditation when I was like 16, and I didn’t realize how influential it was until I got older and started to realize that I was doing the technique he talks about automatically. It was called Catching the Big Fish or something, but the idea is, you close your eyes and let all the ideas go through your head. You don’t... See more
The Creative Independent • On navigating the tension between physical and digital realms
Pullman Palace Car Company was famed for its sleeper and luxury rail cars that it manufactured. One of these manufacturing locations was in Pullman, Illinois. George M. Pullman founded the town of Pullman as a place where his workers could live.
Company Towns: 1880s to 1935
- Map is an underrated social trend. Except Zenly and Pokemon Go, no other company has been able to build something social around maps.
- Zenly allows you to keep track of where your friends and family are located. It notifies you when friends run out of battery, and you can see how long it takes to get to them.
Alexandre Dewez • 📽 Snap. A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Recently I was discussing with a friend the hypothesis that aristocratic tutoring (of the kind we don’t do anymore) is the only known consistent method to at least occasionally produce geniuses, to which he objected “What about Einstein?” A great point. Einstein’s reputation makes him seem one the most democratic of geniuses, a term he’s synonymous... See more