Tanuj

The product designer's task is to create a new f(). The designer doesn't get to define x: that's empirical. And they don't get to dictate y either. A given y is only a worthwhile target if it's worth paying for in the eyes of the user — also empirical. That means x and y are requirements for f(). They are fixed, f() is variable.

If we want to collect the most energy physically possible, we'll have to build the largest most ambitious structure in the universe. The Dyson Sphere, a megastructure that encompasses a whole star to capture its power output.

The best stories are often the trickiest ones. The good and bad things about stories is they're a kind of filter. They take a lot of information, and they leave some of it out, and they keep some of it in. But the thing about this filter, it always leaves the same things in. You're always left with the same few simple stories.

One of the opportunities of having like a multimedia canvas is the ability to extend it semantically, almost. You see some of this discourse around, like the idea of Notion like block based editors, right? It’s that text is the primitive, images are primitive. But you start to kind of wrap these things up into more specific, domain specific, or... See more

Don’t learn a new language. You’ve covered what regular people talk about.5 Instead, dive deep into fields you know nothing about. Economics, Psychology, Philosophy, Physics, or applied rationality.

I kind of made use for content, educational content, when I worked at a company called Framer. So that was all very involved as well, very produced, and it took a lot of time to make. And I didn't want to do that any more. So the kind of, the place where I settled in terms of the kind of content that I would use to drive interest around TLDraw,... See more