The foundational challenge in design is that it's easy to make things hard and hard to make things simple.

If you spent enough years using A/B tests to chase every little bump in engagement without any basis or logic behind what you’re changing or why, eventually people will find something else they like better for reasons you can’t understand. That’s the lesson of Instagram.

Good taste is opinionated. Indecision doesn’t play a part in it. The first step to developing good taste is to stop shrugging your shoulders.

May all beings obey the inscrutable exhortations of their soul. May all beings experience flow. May all beings yearn for the vast and endless sea.

What I’ve been working on: filmbook.xyz → Turn podcasts into playable text documents. Skim, search, save… and play them in a more visual, immersive way

When I think about great technology, I don’t conjure images of version umpteen of some product. I focus on the big steps: cave paintings, writing, the printed book, mass-produced goods, recorded sound and images, telecommunications, computing. Well, AI is the next big step.

Here’s my best advice for people working in creative and technical fields right now. Learn about AI. It can make you better and faster at your job. Figure out how to make that happen for yourself.

When it comes to tech products, so many focus on the gadgetry while ignoring the importance of design—and by design I don’t mean the colors or fonts or other surface-level stuff. While those aspects are important, design is how it works.

✨my guiding light as a builder: “There’s lots of ways to be, as a person... But one of the ways that I believe people express their appreciation to the rest of humanity is to make something wonderful and put it out there. And you never meet the people. You never shake

Burning out can happen at 2 intensities: Most people understand “fast burnout”—when you push yourself beyond capacity towards a goal, sacrificing your physical and mental health. But equally dangerous is “slow burnout”—when you feel trapped in a situation and your motivation to

youtube.com/watch?v=XbkMcv… This is a gem.

#OTD in 1996, Carl Sagan died: 27 years without Carl «When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me ― it still sometimes happens ― and ask me if Carl changed at the end and converted to a belief in an

“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude more than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains rest lightly upon you, and may

Absolutely true

Jeff Bezos is back at Amazon and all-in on AI. Bullish.

We got these phone booths (a K6 from the 1930s, and a KX100 from the 1990s) for the Stripe lobby, as a reminder that there are always two paths in everything we make: something that elevates and makes you smile, or, well, whatever the thing on the right is.