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On people who are INTO it:
Have you ever had the experience, Jerry asks, where you look at something and go, ‘Wow, whoever made that—they were INTO it!’? “That’s what I care about. That’s all I care about. I don’t care about traits or techniques, I don’t care what you do or how you do it—I just want to see people and talk to people and be around peo
... See moreChris Nolan said “dystopias make twice as much at the box office as utopias”
Traveler, there is no path
By Antonio Machado
Traveler, your footprints
Are the path and nothing more;
Traveler, there is no path,
The path is made by walking.
By walking the path is made
And when you look back
You’ll see a road
Never to be trodden again.
Traveler, there is no path,
Only trails across the sea…
As I’ve written before, the speed of technology and the hyperconnectivity of society have placed us in a “never-ending now.”Like hamsters running on a wheel, we live in an endless cycle of ephemeral content consumption — a merry-go-round that spins faster and faster but never goes anywhere.Even the virtues of information consumption have changed.Mo
... See morewhat is the tool doing? what is the person doing?
an argument for going slow in product work and the importance of letting things marinate, via Jason Fried:
... See moreIn the course of building products, you'll likely experience moments when you're unsure of a certain screen, flow, condition, label, idea, whatever.
Maybe this button doesn't feel right. Or the name of this feature feels unresolved. Or some coloBreaking through to a better idea by subtraction, rather than addition, is the most satisfying kind of breakthrough.
-Jason Fried
together but alone inside the galaxies that live within each of us.
downloading new tools today feels like opening a cockpit with 40 years of features.
how will natural language interfaces change this?
- One thing that might surprise you about dominance is how companies get it. You might think it comes from rapacious win-at-all costs business practices, or from raising large amounts of money to snuff out competition. But we’ve found that the primary source for a company’s dominance is whether it designs its product and business model to be perfectl... See more