Kurt Vonnegut's 8 rules for writing: ⁣ 1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.⁣ ⁣ 2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.⁣ ⁣ 3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a

ROE (Return on Experience) gives older staff the recognition they deserve! ft.com/content/cddd3a…

LIVE WITH IT FOR A WHILE In the course of building products, you'll likely experience moments when you're unsure of a certain screen, flow, condition, label, idea, whatever. Maybe this button doesn't feel right. Or the name of this feature feels unresolved. Or some color is

If you want to apply findings from behavioural science to improve your marketing here are the 8 books that I'd start with

The December 2006 Goal of the Month nominations will never be topped. 😳

Takuya Nakamura The Lot Radio 🎶🎉 youtube.com/watch?v=2bG8vD…

This is mind-blowing! The film/media industry will never be the same again. I used to make films on MiniDV, now all you need is a prompt. How long before we get the first AI superstar or an AI film winning Best Picture at the Oscars?! #sora #openai openai.com/sora

The art technique of Paul Kenton, can you guess which city emerged? x.com/Xudong1966/sta…

Marketers often have an unhealthy obsession with efficiency - in many circumstances the Principle of Redundancy might be of more value In the excellent Why Does the Pedlar Sing by Paul Feldwick

Chile is so long, it's curved How long is it? Why not longer? Why no other country is as long? How does that make Chileans incomprehensible? A thread about Chile and its humongous length 🧵

Today's the day: Writebook is here! And it's free. once.com/writebook Blogging and posting on social is easy. But why is it so hard to publish a whole book on the web? It’s not anymore. Writebook is remarkably simple software that allows you to publish text and pictures in

"Doing something different means you might underperform, but it also means you might change the game. If you do what everyone else does, you’ll get the same results that everyone else gets. Best practices aren’t always the best. By definition, they’re average." -

The lighthouse instills comfort as ships navigate the waters. In the darkness their beams of direction guide us away from adversity and back to home. This is a map of some of the world’s lighthouses.

If you thought that Ben Affleck was right re Gen AI movie development not happening just a few weeks ago, I got bad news for ya. Here's a 5 minutes AI short film about D-Day. This tech is barely 12 months old! youtube.com/watch?v=5NZubO… (via Azeem Azhar)

This cool musical road plays music when drivers maintain the speed limit x.com/DamnThatsInter…

Protoclone, the world's first bipedal, musculoskeletal android.

Just do the thing. Don't do the thing because you think it'll make you better at something else. If it does, great. If it doesn't, even greater. One thing doesn't have to be in service of another thing. Don't spoil the parts by trying to make them the whole.

"Vision without action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare." — Soichiro Honda

On the value of realising that no one wants to read your shit From dave trott blog davetrott.co.uk/2016/07/nobody…