Pritesh

Platform evils are often projections of very human sins.

There are lot of different ways to define great design, but this display of obsessive care over the things that “no-one asked for” is probably my favourite. More than a little neurotic and almost never making financial sense, this desire to go further than required has always seemed to me so noble, a pure expression of the deferred love contained... See more

A key part of bringing strategy to creativity is that it removes, “because I feel like it/said so” from the conversation. Once you have a clear strategy of who and what it’s for, anyone can chime in and make it better.

Going for a walk outside doesn’t do enough for touch as it does for sight, smell, sound, getting exercise and clearing your mind.

Gen-Z isn’t just trusting influencers over experts, they’re redefining what “expert” even means. Doctors, journalists, and scientists are dismissed, not because they are wrong, but because they are inconvenient, a straw poll of teens told Fortune . Influencers, on the other hand, are fast, familiar, and on the medium we turn to most: our phones.

The useful thing about defining good design as a form-context fit is that it tells you where you will find the form. The form is in the context.

Taste is the instinct that tells us not just what can be done, but what should be done.

Science is not like foraging, mining, or drilling, where we keep doing the same thing and it keeps getting harder. It’s more like discovering an elevator left for us by aliens. At first we have no idea how it works; we get in and push a button, and now we’re climbing dozens of floors in a matter of seconds. We excitedly calculate that, at this... See more