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But when designing an interface for finding a note in a small pile of personal notes, or building an app to organize a small team’s working documents, most of the “finding stuff” interface ideas are in play. It’s in these situations where I want to make the argument:  prefer interfaces that let the user incrementally move towards the right ans

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Two things Conor has been thinking about:

Privately I and my family refer to such damages as “the real problems.” For the truth is that jobs, grades, mortgages—all the normal difficulties elsewhere in life—mostly end up being either solvable, ephemeral in the long run, or actually livable in their implications, even if they at first seem immediate and pressing. Having literally zero money ... See more

Thus, as the cable-tv-dominated status quo crumbles, pro sports will develop a new playbook, centered around better telling player stories. Players will also have more opportunity to tell and sell these stories themselves, direct-to-consumer:

Can we all earn a living for doing what we love, and loving what we do? Surely there is an entire sample space of token design resting on patronage, appreciation and respect as foundational primitives. One centered on the notion of energy that must be earned and refreshed anew in a world of constant entropy. I do believe the weight of historical go... See more

We’ve recently had this big debate over whether or not college loans should be forgiven. The conversation has all been around “is it fair to burden kids with so much debt or is it fair to effectively punish the people who repaid their loans?” I think both of those are besides the point. The real issue is that the value proposition of going to coll

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I find one meeting can sometimes affect a whole day. A meeting commonly blows at least half a day, by breaking up a morning or afternoon. But in addition there's sometimes a cascading effect. If I know the afternoon is going to be broken up, I'm slightly less likely to start something ambitious in the morning.