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Reading Career paths aren’t linear progressions. They’re complex graphs of relationships, often invisible until you step back and map them. Each node represents not just a job or a skill, but a person who took a chance, offered guidance, or simply showed up at the right moment. Don’
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Reading * This great story about how the calculator was designed on the Mac. * Things like this are why I am not too concerned about AI, there will always be humans making wonderful things just because they can. * Things are feeling really gloomy in UX right now At Linear, I’ve
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On Quality Great design springs from personal conviction, not just objective analysis. Instead of striving for objectivity—which can compromise your vision and potential—design something that inspires you. The quality of your designs is directly correlated to how well you understand the underlying problem. More often than not we
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Reading "In a world where we can outsource productivity to technology, the people who reap the biggest rewards aren’t those who work the fastest. They’re the people who make things that are wonderful, original, weird, emotionally resonant & authentic." First we make the new tool fit
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Reading Slow Productivity requires that you free yourself from the constraints of the small so that you can invest in more meaningful in the big. There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen. “The way I’ve seen great work made isn’t using any
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Watching Using Absurd Design - Free Surrealist Illustrations and Vector ArtDownload surrealist illustrations. Use free vector art for your landing pages, presentations and apps. These artworks combine the absurdity and childishness.Absurd DesignFree AI Character Generator: Make unlimited characters onlineLet your online personality shine with an AI avatar that perfectly
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Reading The cultural power of the anti-woke tech broThe aesthetic of Cybertrucks, energy drinks, and MMA, explained.VoxRebecca JenningsBlood & SugarJune, 1781. An unidentified body hangs upon a hook at D…GoodreadsLaura Shepherd-Robinson Using Elevate your listening experience with ElevenReader | ElevenLabsTry ElevenReader App to listen to books, articles, PDFs, ePubs,
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Reading Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving GraceHow AI Could Transform the World for the BetterDario Amodei The natural desire to reach consensus inside a group tends to eliminate both bad and great ideas. It's a filter for both the terribly bad, but also the incredibly good. Using ClaudeTalk
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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
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The great enemy of writing isn’t your lack of talent, it’s being interrupted by other people. 👀 Looking 📚 Reading The TreesWhen a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau o…GoodreadsPercival EverettErasureThelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to def…GoodreadsPercival Everett 💭 Thinking Once you are feeling attacked or