Stuff from the saved pile đź’¬"Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same."Dive into big ideas with MuseFlexible boards for notetaking, whiteboarding, and connecting the dots. Your tool for deep work, now
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💡[On semiconductor manufacturing] - "They require one of the most powerful lasers that has ever been deployed in a commercial device. They have an explosion happening inside of them at 40 or 50 times hotter than the surface of the sun.”HeliographMixpanel’s brand design systemThink better with ReflectThink
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Skills that aren't thought of as skills Attitudes are skills. Good taste is a skill. Creation is more scarce than criticism People rarely criticize the critic. It’s a lot more difficult to use a bandsaw, or even to use a pencil to draw the plans in the
Early readers Early modern Englishmen read in fits and starts and jumped from book to book. They broke texts into fragments and assembled them into new patterns by transcribing them in different sections of their notebooks. Commonplace books Reading and writing were therefore inseparable activities. They belonged to a continuous
TL;DR - As design tools improve we use them more and earlier in the process. This influences us and limits creativity. To tackle this, try sketching. Design Tools are Awesome Design tools (Figma, Figjam, Miro etc) have become incredibly powerful over the last few years. I've found
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What I learned this week After going all-in on the Second Brain methodology I started using the techniques in my work life after trialing it with my personal life and projects. I managed to leave some good notes for future Russ on AB Testing & Analytics and in particular on
đź’ˇThe aesthetic principle of complementary colors is due to the fact that our perception process continually tries to reconstitute the entire chromatic circle during the color perception stage.
A light week since I've been on holiday but still some finds: Type Foundry Index | type.lolWe want to make digital typography more accessible and exciting by showcasing foundries and designers that we love and respect.Type.lol | Type Foundry Index