A product that has nothing to do with social connection, self-enrichment, understanding of reality, or anything with even the veneer of meaning. This is a drug deal, and you pay with your attention and agency. They got one thing right tho, we should blast it into space 🚀

We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 seconds of slop

Ridley Scott: In my movie Alien I invented the Facehugger as a cautionary tale. Tech Company: At long last, we have created a VR/AI experience called Facehugger from the classic sci-fi movie Alien.

My thesis (and why I'm building Margins) is that no book-related app has the kind of solid product fundamentals that Insta, Tiktok, or most games do. Setting aside addictiveness, just the craft, charm, community, and content are worlds apart. Books need a fighting chance.

We are in the 'create the problem' era of the 'create the problem, then create the solution' business cycle. Not sure we're going to love the solution, but we'll probably run to it anyway because of the chaos caused by the problem.

“Why are folks getting dumber?” Because they don’t read. “Why aren’t men as romantic & poetic as they used to be?” Because they don’t read. “Why are people so vulnerable to propaganda?” “Why is everyone a conspiracy theorist?” Because they don’t read. Because they don’t read.

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used

We’re App of the Day! 🎉 Building great products is a team effort and I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished with Margins so far, and very excited about what’s in store this coming year!

Crazy day at @readwithmargins 😅 lots of people to get back to and fixes to test!

Building a handcrafted product takes time because you are compelled to spend that extra 20 minutes refactoring a button so you can optically align icons that look ever so slightly off by default. All so that nobody even notices. (setting books as private coming soon!)

TLDR read to your kids!

Agree with all of this, except Figma was never the source of truth because it’s never reflected the actual constraints of the medium of software. One of the ways designers get deluded is thinking their design systems are real, when at best they’re a loose approximation of the