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You’re gonna hire someone for Meta to design your app? That world is dead. You’re done.

Where do you think the next great talent is coming from?Baristas, bartenders...people that have stories to tell, people that are doing cool shit. Ther

The future of community: a future for communities | thesephist.com

quality has no discernable metric -miter

They told us productivity would set us free. So we organized and optimized and checked all the boxes. We became very good at being very busy. But in t

People who insist that every product decision should be metrics-driven would also have to logically admit that theirs will be the first job to get aut

I just fixed my dishwasher with the help of ChatGPT. A trivial task. I had been about to order a new one. So this software has increased the country's

Many of us, in pursuit of the spiritual, become woefully neglectful of the physical.

According to him, the word “natural” has become a “sort of a secular stand-in for a generalized understanding of goodness, which in religion you’d cal

Addictions are attempts to attain bliss without releasing defensive patterns.

I don’t think back on those days too often, but with Matthew Perry’s death, the memories have coiled around me because of how honest he was about his

Consumer behavior is never done or satisfied. One of the great things about brands is that magical products or platforms or experiences can delight cu

Consumer founders today are solving for abundance. Too much food, pollution, stimulation, and connections leads to obesity, climate change, mental hea

Anna Juul on embracing the run-on sentence:My biggest literary sin is probably that I don’t like full stops, in fact I don’t use them at all if I can

we should seize this moment rather than reject it. The cultural/ moral script for the singularity remains unwritten

NOBODY TALKS ABOUT - WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT - YOU DON’T REALIZE - HERE’S EVERYTHING YOU NEED - I CAN’T BELIEVE NO ONE TOLD ME - DON’T GET ME WRONG BUT

The internet taught us to consume everything. Save everything. Remember everything. But wisdom isn't about remembering more. It's about knowing what t

A digital communal garden. Shared beauty and care.

“People think that intimacy is about sex. Intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to the

This project is inspired by the transformative power of intimate gatherings. Most of my transformation has happened in intimate group settings where m

“The techniques that we use, they’re not a big secret. It’s just about making an effort and repeating the same thing every day.” Jiro repeats the s

"Every product in the world, the quality at the end of the day is simply a reflection of how much the people who created it gave a shit about the prod

It starts by sending guests a series of questions that can help bubble up interesting topics. Rachitsky has never shared these publicly before, but he

Make your future so irresistible, it becomes inevitable.

The answer to all of these questions is no, because the answer to the glowing lights is Pierre’s Upstairs, a private-event space with the most not-wri

LLMs have three new capabilities that change the nature of search: Intuitive leaps: LLMs can answer poorly written questions with spooky-accurate ans

Unlike vertical search aggregators, boutique search engines feel less like the Yellow Pages and more like texting your friends to ask for a recommenda

The Internet consumes enormous quantities of time without generating proportionate quantities of memory

warm minimalism

Functionality still matters, of course. But competition has pushed quality so high and prices so low that many manufacturers can no longer distinguish

When evaluating a company, one of my favorite questions to ask is whether it has an aesthetic. We don’t talk about aesthetics as the highest form of

to be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

iUnlock doors with it.iMeet lovers through it.iOrder food with it.iSummon cars with it.iEven meditate with it.Apple designed the iPhone too well.So we

Nobody talks enough about what the passive income movement did to the content quality of the entire internet. If you've tried to google "best [anythin

This is the problem with Substack:"The tragedy of a lot of modern technologies is that it is really trying to make posts and thoughts as short as poss