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"The best way to invent the future is to tinker in the present" Reading Alchemy Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don’t Make …’A breakthrough book. Wonderfully applicable to everyth…GoodreadsRory Sutherland Sword of Kaigen The Sword of KaigenA mother struggling to repress her violent past,
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"I don't say no because I'm so busy. I say no because I don't want to be busy." Looking Reading Extremely Hardcore Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk’s Twitter“Zoë Schiffer has written the definitive book on perhap…GoodreadsZoë Schiffer F*ck
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“Writing is a technology that restructures thought.” Looking Reading The Distraction Addiction: Getting the Information You …The question of our time: can we reclaim our lives in a…GoodreadsAlex Soojung-Kim PangWhat Figma AI means for designAnd why it doesn’t really matterDesigning with AIMia Blume Using Tried to use AI
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The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding Looking Thinking Excerpts from reading this week. “Algorithms are limiting the future to the past” "In my opinion, career transitions and promotions are not the responsibility of a manager." "
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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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"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