Simon Joliveau Breney
@simonjb
Simon Joliveau Breney
@simonjb
But learning how to think with visual information (not just react to it) requires a different way of seeing, one that enables you to pause the instinctual labeling and stereotyping of the visual images you’re processing and see the individual elements in the image
I use Claude for spreadsheet work. It’s good at understanding what’s actually in your data, not just what you tell it is there. It can edit existing files, which matters more than you might think. A lot of spreadsheet work isn’t creating new ones from scratch. It’s modifying existing ones while keeping formulas and formatting intact.
168 hours is enough time to work 50 hours a week, sleep 8 hours a night, and still spend massive amounts of time with your children. But since all hours aren’t created equally, making this come out right involves moving around chunks of hours like puzzle pieces.
The typical time horizon for a product team’s north star, or long-term vision, is three to four years out. Usually it’s a document describing like what the world will look like and what the user experience should be like and what’s different from today.
In 1968, Douglas Engelbart demonstrated a computer system called the oN-Line System, or NLS. The NLS is the source of a lot of computer firsts. Among other things, Engelbart showed video conferencing, collaborative text editing, embedded graphics, copying and pasting, and hypertext - all of it accessible through a mouse and keyboard. This event has
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Forget broad resolutions. Instead, Itzler suggests choosing one big, hard, year-defining challenge. He calls this a "Misogi," which stems from an ancient Japanese water cleansing ritual. Your Misogi can be personal or professional - anything that will push you outside your comfort zone and make 2025 truly memorable.
The infinite canvas isn't bad, necessarily, but the unstructured sprawl of mixed information they often lead to seems to offer little value to the vast majority of computer users. When adding structure and bounds to the canvas, the idea does seem to appeal to a wider audience: spreadsheets are very popular. But there's a limited amount of
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