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Design, tech, mostly nonsense.

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thanks Claude

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what a week, huh?

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tonight at dinner a friend of a friend sitting next to me started talking about how ai is using all the water and i Did Not Engage

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@curtcodein @solve_sf I’m pretty sure Waymo gets it wrong too!

[Julie Zhuo @joulee]

https://t.co/TjJDFgynKm

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Software is becoming modern art. "I could have made that!" "Yeah, but you didn't."

[taoki @justalexoki]

can't believe i spent my whole life becoming Good At Computer only for Computer to become Better At Computer

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Beautiful.

[sam henri gold @samhenrigold]

https://t.co/DOxbGZpnT9

[kristina v. saint @kristinatastic]

(this is total speculation on my part bc Dia was made after my time at browser but I assume the culture there is still the same)

what made Arc’s onboarding great was: we tried signing up for the product every single day, several times a day.

every monday morning, the team would get on a call together, one of us would screenshare trying to sign up and the rest of us would write down what was wrong. for a good couple of months, this was excruciating and embarrassing. most of it was broken, a lot of lofty ideas we had for special details or clever animations felt awkward or silly. it felt pointless to do as a group because so little of the prod experience matched what we had in our heads, I think most of us wanted to go back to the drawing board and think of a better flow in our heads. but we filed dozens of tickets for ourselves, and then got back to work. all week eng and design would be running through the entire flow over and over again as they fixed those issues. rinse and repeat, for I don’t remember, maybe twenty weeks. until the real thing was as good as what we had in our heads.

that’s it, that’s the secret. you have to actually use your product, more than your users ever will, and then fix everything that feels bad instead of letting it slide.

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The physiognomy of product names

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Yeah I’m feeling pretty tired, I think I need to lay down and take in 8,000 different pieces of information

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@paulg I actually don’t think the Bud Light thing is “false”, but I do think it reveals that your definition of wokeness isn’t broad enough to align with how 90% of people use the term, and once you start getting into what they *actually* mean it starts to get ugly

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@paulg Here’s a specific sentence: you drop the Bud Light brand damage as an obvious example of being too woke, but how does that situation reflect wokeness *as defined in your essay*?

No one’s speech was policed – they hired a spokesperson people didn’t like and got cancelled for it.

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@elonmusk Have you ever actually used linux

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@Davidjpark96 Love this.

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I unironically love stepping outside in downtown sf and overhearing some dorks talking about how they’re targeting small to medium sized businesses

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@CAgovernor what

[Joe 🌳 @Skogur2]

My wife found a website that sells prints of old trade publication covers and I'm obsessed