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why do we overlook subtraction as a way to improve things?


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emerging orgs attempting to build credibility by selectively funding already established people, rather than supporting (AND promoting!) promising but undiscovered talent creating a parasitic economy where: 1. new money chases old status 2. fresh perspectives get filtered out…


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This may be obvious to some but I'm now convinced: fierce competition for grants and papers is leading to low societal ROI (return on investment). Why, when competition should mean only the best-formulated and executed work is accepted for funding and high-profile publication?


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this is what i mean when i say interoperability is crypto's killer feature:


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One time I said "if we literally drop everything else it would maybe take 3 months", meaning "this is crazy", and the boss heard that as "we can definitely do it in 3 months as well as get everything else done". Dates have power, speak them wisely.

You cannot be agile if your client insists that you work in a waterfall. If they demand estimates (which they see as commitments) and then set a time/money budget based on those estimates, that's waterfall. That works against them, of course. If the time/budget is fixed, then…



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Interface design is about the body, not the mind. It’s a sensing apparatus that lets you feel out a space of information.


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Everyone will tell you to design a product that's a "painkiller" not a "vitamin" But @ValerieTetu changed my mind... Here's why we need to move from "problem-focused" to "benefit-focused" design 👇 join.dive.club/vitamins


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i'm trying, as a sad joke, to guess what the next big tech grift will be now that 'AI' is starting to creak at the seams. i think they can't rinse and repeat VR yet, they have to wait a few years.


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The rise and fall of corporations where they are vigorous and dynamic and then become capable but no longer growing and finally enter a death spiral is one of those obvious patterns oft remarked on. It can be best understood as an aging process, exactly like a biological one.


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AI just made the 'need a research team and 5 years' meme obsolete and now designing interfaces for human understanding is everything.


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Took a risk in talking about philosophy to developers and it turns out to be much more popular than talking about science. Food for thought.


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We need more communities, not tools. There are so many new tools for designers but so few communities. Tools make our job easier. Communities make us better designers.


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We’re hitting a saturation point with UI design where literally everything looks the same. AI trained on this will only further proliferate low-effort, copycat designs. Systems and product thinking, ability to code, unique style and true craft will stand out more. Chase those.


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The potency of a proper good software designer, who can work directly in code, is the ability to try ideas & circumvent the back-and-forth of cross-role justification, and inevitably, information loss You lose so many hunches to cross-role justification


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frontend is harder than backend because having taste is harder than knowing algos


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financial incentives have been deadly to building meaningful social communities

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lots of gems in this thread

Tinkering with the idea of turning the "Niche product design" essay into a zine. Meanwhile curating some inspiration and related ideas.



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The best product people I know have been like this. Something I aspire to and see glimpses of. But it usually seems ruined by the KPI/metric/data focused people so prevalent in tech. They don’t understand that the data is helpful, but best combined with intuition.

I strongly suspect the capacity for pattern recognition in humans follows a power law distribution and some people can do it way better than is commonly recognized; picking up on the subtlest cues and “just knowing” without any explicit rationale



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calling this the research app


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🪐 They're almost there → Short demo of arrows in Kosmik 2.10


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