Nik

Currently designing kinetic_xyz, ex Curve Fi, Irreverent Labs | architect

[Nik @MadeGuyy]

@culturaltutor Architecture is the time stamp of the fabric of a civilisation. It is a dichotomy between art and values.

[Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke]

Humane is the perfect cautionary tale of how talented people get completely distorted from reality by staying at large, successful companies for too long.

Are you really a great product designer? Or do you just work at Apple?

Are you actually great at sales? Or do you just work at Google?

Are you really an incredible growth marketer? Or do you just work at Instagram?

After a certain size, the brands sell themselves.

The only way to test your abilities is to leave the shelter of these mega brands and go out and build something yourself from scratch.

(And usually throwing lots of money at the problem pre-launch isn't going to help you.)

[Nik @MadeGuyy]

Trouble is, the body’s modeled like a baby: soft mass, stubby limbs, a toddler’s face. An adolescent’s pose on infant anatomy, with no real attempt to reconcile the two.

The polish hides how little is modeled underneath, and the hands and feet barely resolve. The silhouette has rhythm, but as iconography the piece doesn’t know what it is. I’m not sure why you made such a decision with proportions too.

I think ancient Indian sculptors did it way, way better (pic attached)

[Michael Embrich @MikeEmbrich]

I have to give it to @ElonMusk.

Every time I open X, it becomes clearer that the people who live on this app are operating in a completely different reality from the rest of us.

He didn’t build a town square. He built a safe space for the worst people in society to thrive.

Kudos, Elon. 📱🧵

#ElonMusk #X #SocialMedia #Tech #OnlineExtremism

[Nik @MadeGuyy]

@bubbleboi Beyond any doubt, the best explanation about existence I’ve ever read was Boris Marjavonic’s translation of Abhinav Gupta’s Sanskrit interpretation of Bhagvad Gita

[Nik @MadeGuyy]

@craigstoe @avipat_ @brycent 100 percent!

[𝑙𝑦𝑟𝑎 @naturehealyou]

the earth showing off again

[Nik @MadeGuyy]

@craigstoe @geoffreywoo Hahaha

[Moonstruck❤️‍🔥 @godspeed_aflame]

listening to indian classical music you really understand why it completely one shot every rock band in the 60s

[Nik @MadeGuyy]

@krate27 @wassielawyer Easy to guess which one is it

[Nik @MadeGuyy]

@AnjneyMidha @mabb0tt @karpathy @bhorowitz @brendaniribe @DavidBaszucki @LiamFedus @ekindogus @sama That’s one loaded roster!

[Sātavāhana. @SatavahanasIN]

Head of Fasting Siddhartha
2nd century CE, Afghanistan

[Nik @MadeGuyy]

Always have been and it will stay like that for unforeseeable future

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Great designers are suddenly an extremely limited resource

[Nostalgia @NostalgiaFolder]

Why is 1990s nostalgia still so dominant compared to other decades?

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Office life before the invention of AutoCAD and other drafting software.

Prior to the release of AutoCAD in 1982, engineering drawings were all done by hand using different grade pencils, erasers, T-squares and set squares.

[Paul Anleitner @PaulAnleitner]

I firmly believe that we can literally feel the amount of handmade human care put into something.

That’s why the old animated films often feel like they have more “soul.”

That is the expression of human care you’re sensing.

I hope we don’t lose this.
https://t.co/0HAUJEUkP2

[Nik @MadeGuyy]

@DamonZumbroegel @juchkuduk This is exactly what it means! I’m glad you get its true essence.

It could also be called “being relentlessly resourceful” like the Paul graham article.
Don’t have the right resources? Make it work!

https://t.co/kLQd5GcNmW

[Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke]

China absolutely decimating every corner of the world’s oceans is without question the biggest environmental catastrophe happening right now, as in an actual ecological disaster, yet the “save the planet” grifters never talk about it, while forcing us to use paper straws.

[Nik @MadeGuyy]

@Rainmaker1973 In architecture we called it bio mimicry

[Nik @MadeGuyy]

@sytaylor @WSJ That is not the Federal Reserve’s logo

[Winston Sterzel @serpentza]

Soon the whales will have nothing to eat and food chains will collapse due to Chinese fleets inability to have any self control