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"Your success as a designer depends equally on your relationships as it does on your design talent"

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Bezi

Bezi | Design in 3D together

Bezi is a collaborative 3D design tool, empowering teams to design and prototype on a spatial canvas together.

Design in 3D together

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Tales of the Otori

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The Unthanks

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Reading DOC • Story of a buttonNavigating change and finding your click.Francesco PiniIn Search of Organic SoftwareSo over the last couple weeks, I’ve been talking to VCs and founders who have and haven’t taken VC to learn whether it makes sense for Kinopio. I don’t think it

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Reading The World Without UsA penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth …GoodreadsAlan WeismanBad Monkey (Andrew Yancy, #1)Carl Hiaasen is back doing what he does best: spinning …GoodreadsCarl Hiaasen Using A surprisingly fun "data set guesser", a quirky 'one time' website, lo-fi typeface and a

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Reading JamesA brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventure…GoodreadsPercival EverettAristotle — How to live a good life - Ralph Ammer2400 years ago Aristotle found out how to be happy. His Nicomachean Ethics is an operating manual for a good life.Ralph Ammerralphammer Anxiety and excitement are the same emotion in different

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Looking Reading Learning By WritingAn outline of how I form detailed opinions on topics: by exploring hypotheses and writing about them, not by undirected reading.Cold TakesHolden KarnofskyUp and Down the Ladder of AbstractionEverything that turned out well in my life followed the same design processThe context is smarter than