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- I’ve come to think of software applications as a form of digital architecture: some are places of concentration, others of collaboration, others clearly just for fun. Software’s emotional dimension is crucial: how it feels dictates how it’s used. (Architects hire environmental psychologists; tech companies hire user-experience researchers.) Microso... See more
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…
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
-Herodotus
tone is the UX of the natural language era.
- 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
I think the reason the word ‘second brain’ feels insufficient is because it is so-without-heart by definition — that’s what the brain is! It is pure mind. I feel like what would make this phrase scratch the itch you are hoping to scratch is something that weaves the amount of HEART and love you and your team are putting into this product.
“It is ironic that I was never categorizable and now I’m a category.”
Jimmy Buffett
- we'll need a place to get grounded when AI agents take over. a place we can go to for pure humanity. getting grounded with a sea of human thoughts and ideas will feel like a vacation.
Making Sublime and how do you describe Sublime at the dinner table?
People assume that generative AI will lead to a tsunami of garbage content. I think the opposite problem is more interesting: what if you were drowning in amazing content? What if you’re so inspired and overwhelmed by awe that it’s stressful and addicting and life disorienting?
worth remembering: so often the shiny new thing quickly shows signs of being mostly hype, while the unassuming, homey option proves its staying power