Tejas Gawande
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Co-founder, Chronicle. Product geek.
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Six neurotransmitters make up life. Need to focus on all of them to ensure overall happiness and flow
“If your world is not enchanted, you’re not paying attention.”
Alex Dobrenko` • The Bucket Theory of Creativity
Developing taste is an exercise in vulnerability: it requires you to trust your instincts and preferences, even when they don’t align with current trends or the tastes of your peers. Because while having taste is cool, taste itself reflects a certain type of uncool earnestness – a commitment to one’s own obsessions and quirks.
Elizabeth Goodspeed on the Importance of Taste – And How to Acquire It
Great ideas require taste
Talking or writing about the things you're interested in is a good way to generate new ideas. When you try to put ideas into words, a missing idea creates a sort of vacuum that draws it out of you. Indeed, there's a kind of thinking that can only be done by writing.
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
Don't forget to make the ordinary come alive
Design has evolved to meet the challenge of the new relationship between people and the material goods they need. Today, designers — artisans, manufacturers, engineers, architects — think far beyond the way things look. Comparing pre-industrial design to post-industrial design with a picture is absurd. Critiquing a modern object based on its... See more
Beauty in the machine: post-industrial design
Ideas evolve gradually over years and decades into their final shape. The new form has many micro decisions behind it
Abloh’s approach was often to make a small “3% “change to the original form. He wasn’t changing something by 3% just to change it by 3%, though. He was adding his personal 3% touch (in a world of generative AI, I really want to emphasize the personal touch aspecthere).
My favourite example of Abloh's approach was a collaboration with Nike on “The... See more
My favourite example of Abloh's approach was a collaboration with Nike on “The... See more
Trung Phan • 9 Creative Lessons From Virgil Abloh
What is a good way to riff on existing work? Small 3% changes.
Connect experiences
In a pre-AI world, whether you were building software or teams, or writing books or marketing plans, you needed to strip the problems you were facing down to their bare elements—their essence—and work your way forward from there. In building software, you need to define your core user and the problem you want to solve; in writing books, you need a... See more
Dan Shipper • Five New Thinking Styles for Working With Thinking Machines
Essences vs. sequences