shashaank
@shshnkbhskr
An adult sized kid who stumbled into a candy store.
A designer with a keen interest on the future of interfaces between the physical/virtual.
Love: basketball, food, film and generally cool stuff. (who doesn’t)
shashaank
shshnkbhskr.bearblog.dev
We have no investors, no board of directors, no eyes on an exit. We feel a moral obligation to exercise our independence. To do things no one would give us permission to do. To try things other companies would be afraid to try. To skip safe, and go for original.
mission statements, manifestos & principles and the new kinds of organised work
- Why I don't like algorithmic/filter bubbles/for you feeds: I refuse to be one thing. I’m two things, three things, a hundred things at once, and I’ll be a hundred different things tomorrow. I don’t want the convenience of being collapsed, defined, optimized for legibility. I want to be aerated, blobby, and porous. I want to be the sea around an ... See more
A good system is designed to be periodically cleared of cruft. It has a built-in counterbalance. Without this pressure, our bias drives us to add band-aid after band-aid, until the only choice is to destroy the whole system and start from scratch.
— Steph Ango (kepano), What can we removeWork on becoming more attuned to all your senses such that you can notice minute differences between things. Study all the little differences between similar things, and why you like one better than the other. The world wants you numb. Being a student of nuance is an act of rebellion.
-Kepano
I think “And what else?” is the best coaching question in the world. It does two things: It extends the period of curiosity, and it tames your advice monster.
Each of you is perfect the way you are… and you can use a little improvement.
— Shunryū Suzuki
Quotes and
- Too many people think the grass is greener somewhere else but grass is green where you water it, remember that.
WALL-E was modelled after ET.
“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”
—Terry Pratchett
Yes, Terry you're absolutely right. It's like speaking in front of a mirror.
There is no code faster than no code
— Kevin Henney