Rushikesh Bijapurkar

Product Designer & Manager at

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Will talk about everything I learn every day on topics
- Product Development & Management
- Product Design
- AI Market
- Bharat (India)

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@felixleezd @ADPList 👋

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Noice easter egg @Swiggy

[vivan. @VivanVatsa]

https://t.co/6fPOtTBBoN

[DANN© @DannPetty]

The rise of the designer that can ship is about to take over this whole industry.

Designers are tired of working hard, designing the product, only to be an afterthought still.

[Felix Lee @felixleezd]

Designers are burnt out.

Call it passion at 60 hours, quiet quitting at 40 - and wonder why 82% of designers are burned out.

Design has a problem other tech roles don't.

Our work is never done. There's always one more iteration, one more pixel to perfect.

Good enough feels like failure.

24% of designers report high burnout - highest in tech (by @lennysan). Not because we work harder, but because creativity can't be timeboxed.

Remote work was supposed to help. Instead it erased the boundaries entirely.

The industry glorifies "innovation" while punishing anything less than breakthrough work. Then acts surprised when perfectionism becomes the only gear we know.

If you've ever felt guilty for shipping something "just good" instead of great, that's not craft - that's burnout rebranded as shipping fast.

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@ormanclark Overthinking and perfectionism kick in…

Am I being too bold about myself here? Or am I not showing my skills better? I think I can do better than this…

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Building the right thing by taking more time >>> Building the wrong thing faster in way less time

Here the “thing” = product, feature, relationship, anything that has value

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Studying the world…

Source - https://t.co/mxW3HExs0B

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@benhylak

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@DannPetty Agree. Nowadays it’s like

Me: Let me think and add some creative flair to this

Client/management: I want this to be just functional, good looking and Live ASAP…

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Substantially unhealthy watch time for YouTube

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@elymadebynormal Is it just for me or the hamburger menu of your site is actually not working?

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I’m sick of reading this on every movie’s scene on Instagram reels and YouTube shorts

Indian Cinema Peaked here BS

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I read somewhere - #job boards are DEAD…

Are they? Really??

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How do people even get something to post!? And somehow it gets more engagement… my account is as good as dead ig

Kuch toh karna padega :(

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Why can’t Apple TV produce series like SUITS ?!!

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When will this window become aesthetically appealing?

#IndianRailways

[Ryo Lu @ryolu_]

stop overthinking, start building:

the best way to predict the future is to invent it. and the best way to invent is to start building.

you can dream all you want. you can think in abstract, map out perfect systems in your head, debate the ideal architecture. but none of that matters until you start making something real.

building is like mounding clay. you don't start with the perfect form. you start with a lump. you push, you shape, you feel the resistance. the material talks back. it tells you what works and what doesn't. you learn by doing, not by thinking about doing.

with Cursor, the gap between idea and reality is basically zero now. you don't need to know every syntax, every framework, every pattern. you just need to start. Cursor helps you shape the clay. it fills in the gaps. it lets you focus on what you're making, not how to make it.

overthinking is just fear dressed up as preparation. you're not getting ready, you're just delaying. the longer you wait, the more you convince yourself it needs to be perfect before you start. but perfect doesn't exist at the beginning. it only emerges through iteration.
every great thing you've ever seen started as something rough. the first iPhone was a prototype held together with tape. the first Notion was a clunky tool that barely worked. the first anything was messy. but it existed. and because it existed, it could be improved.

so stop planning the perfect app. stop debating the right tech stack. stop waiting for the right moment. just open Cursor and start building. make something bad. make something that barely works. then make it better. then make it better again.

the future isn't something you think your way into. it's something you build your way into. one line of code at a time. one iteration at a time. like mounding clay until something beautiful emerges.

start today. start now. start messy. just start.

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@heyshipz Naruto Dattebayo!

[Rushikesh Bijapurkar @AtRushikesh]

The more you move away from the fundamentals, the more radical, irrational and extremist you become