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what do I _____ want?47

really? actually? always? never? Figuring what I want, where I want to go, who I want to be and many more existential(or not) questions

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I’ve never been a founder or a manager, and I don’t aspire to be, but I do want to build and create and grow things I’m proud of with people that care

I wish I could go back and do it properly. Four tight years in a row. Lifelong friends. A network. Reunions. Alumni events.

Friendship, however, has always depended on a certain irrational generosity. A willingness to waste time together magnificently. To listen to the same

Cognitive Reprogramming77

A long-term project learning practices in using physical micro actions, thoughts and verbal cues to activate desired mental and emotional states on demand.

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The more you create, the more powerful you become. The more you consume, the more powerful others become.

"Motivation is not the cause of action, it is the result. You want to be motivated? Get up and go do something" — Mark Manson

How to reach Level Zero9

How do you make enough money that you no longer have to worry about food, shelter, health and other very real challenges. This is just survival. Life comes after, that's where this actually starts -- Level Zero

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They lied to you. There is no rock at rock bottom. There's a trampoline. And from there, all you do is fucking rise

building / creating / making1
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product building, like everything else in life, is really about your energy when you are in resistance to it, it will feel resistant to you the tri

a Sublime experience49

It’s cool to be a part of an early community of users, like I’m part of a gang with all the cool kids in town so I thought I should make notes (which is what cool kids do) of things that stood out to me while using this app, thoughts on my user experience and more…

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20250118 / Feature I might want Can we differentiate between music and other audio?

Can’t export a canvas to a JSON file. Bummer. Can’t import a JSON file as well… Can we get more portability access with our canvases?

Listening to audio via in-app browser is a pain when it's saved here, on Android. The PWA closes Reopen the PWA Loads the saved URL, so progress is l

Observations on the Human Experience26

UI, UX and IxD insights for a rainy day.

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Early in my research career, a security guard told me something I have never forgotten: “When a bank has too much glass windows, I feel they won’t res

Financial institutions spend enormous effort measuring whether a customer is creditworthy. It has not occurred to most product teams that the custome

digital bookshelves1
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message in a bottle10
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WWWWW&H30

Why? What? Where? When? Who? and How?— — —A collection of better questions to get better answers.

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How can you prioritize the accumulated wisdom of humanity over the impulses of the past 24 hours?

What is the single hardest part of this project? Do I actually know it's the hardest part, or am I guessing? If I avoid it forever, can this project s

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? — Will Guidara's Dad, Unreasonable Hospitality

Everyone should have at least one skill that makes no money and takes ten years to master

dumb projects I want to work on6
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Connection39

→ Perspective

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More generally, it’s not beginnings and ends that count, but middles. Things and thoughts advance or grow out from the middle, and that’s where you ha

"Eventually everything connects – people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se." — Charles Eames

we can just do things6
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"Motivation is not the cause of action, it is the result. You want to be motivated? Get up and go do something" — Mark Manson

copy worthy copy writing5
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Winning bets1
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delicious phrases6
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Drafts of this essay were discussed with Johanna Karlsson. The copy edits were done by Esha Rana. Any remaining mistakes are mine.

Sometimes it is rude in the way accurate things are rude.

If people stop going to the circus, the clowns go home.

decision-making6
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“Because it’s cool” is an underrated way to make decisions -via Jason Yuan

I split problems into two groups: muddy puddles and leaky ceilings. Some problems are like muddy puddles. The way to clear a muddy puddle is to leav

Design your life3
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"My mind begins to seem like a video game: I can either play it intelligently, learning more in each round, or I can be killed in the same spot by the

design inspo1
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color11
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