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If there is no sacrifice there is no discipline, and if there is no discipline there is no progress. Looking Using Curation of CurationsNetflix, But for Design & Entrepreneurship. Dive into a world of design with handpicked podcasts, videos, blogs, and much more. Reading I finally finished The Will of
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"When someone submits a bug report about some jank, sometimes it’s easy to classify it as a small issue. Then I run into it myself, realize that it really affects the experience, and go fix it right away. Felt pain is way more salient than communicated pain."
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"This isn’t the end of software, but it is the beginning of a new software era. And I like the media industry analogy, but it’s an evolution, not a death." 🔥 Looking 🛠️ Using FreeForm 📖 Reading The Will of the Many 🎧 On Repeat After switching music services and
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"Don’t ask yourself where your true gifts lie. Ask what other people seem weirdly bad at." Looking Using Gentler Streak Reading I enjoyed these optimistic articles about the future of software creation: The Rise of the Software CreatorIn the age of AI, software creators, like content creators,
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Shepherding ideas through the process is the hard bit. As a designer it's our job to look after those ideas.
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"The big secret to happiness is just liking stuff. Finding more stuff to like. Finding ways to like stuff you didn’t before.”
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New ways of looking at things create much greater innovation than new ways of doing them. Looking Using Sublime SublimeExperience a calmer, more human InternetSublimeRecord ClubRecord Club is a new social music network that makes it easy to track, rate, review and compile lists of your favorite releases with a…
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"I have more exciting ideas when I don’t feel shame about what excites me, when I allow myself to be stupid and naive and boring. I try not to judge myself in the act of giving birth to ideas." Look Used I'm a sucker for
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“It is not enough merely to switch off the lights which play upon the main and ordinary field of interest; a new field of interest must be illuminated.” Looking Reading Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric Same as Ever: a guide to what never changes. —————————————————————————————————————————— This
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“Dreams without movement are delusions, escapes, kid’s play. You have to put your feet into your dreams if they’re ever going to be reality. The dreamers we know and love today are the ones who worked the hardest.” - Paul Newman Looking Using Cycles Reading Villager - Tom
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“Creativity is rarely efficient. It always involves taking chances and trying things that might work but might not. The question then is: are we willing to spend time to be interesting, to think interesting thoughts and make interesting things?” Looking Using Ghost.org - an organisation with the right principles,
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“Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Looking Using TheShapeofAI Ideogram Reflect Reading Daily Rituals - How Artists Work On Repeat Seeya 👋