Gaurav Mathur 🦚

Idea hunter.
From Jaipur to Amsterdam

[Gaurav Mathur 🦚 @mathurgaurav]

Reasoning > Storytelling

[Gaurav Mathur 🦚 @mathurgaurav]

Time in human conversations - reducing
Time immersed in media - increasing

[Gaurav Mathur 🦚 @mathurgaurav]

People are farther, things are closer

[Gaurav Mathur 🦚 @mathurgaurav]

@nayanshah_neo great read, much positive vibes 👍

[Gaurav Mathur 🦚 @mathurgaurav]

well well well

[Isabel🌻 @isabelunraveled]

andy warhol: “make art, and while everyone is deciding what they think of it, make more art.”

[Sidharth II सिद्धार्थ @sidharthgehlot]

World isn't ready for these South Indian housefront designs.

[Boyan Slat @BoyanSlat]

Here are 35 of the most interesting facts and stats I came across this year! 🧵

[Ben Lang @benz145]

Very cool (and almost *frustrating*) optical illusion. If you pause this video at any time, the shapes disappear. They exist *only* temporally, not visually.

This is from Branta Games on YouTube (full video linked below)

[Gaurav Mathur 🦚 @mathurgaurav]

@asallen @CecilKleine

[Gaurav Mathur 🦚 @mathurgaurav]

@cosmovenky @vanlancker Sketching user experiences - the workbook

[François Chollet @fchollet]

The further technology advances, the more valuable it becomes to give yourself the means to be part of that progress. Learn to code.

[Gaurav Mathur 🦚 @mathurgaurav]

@michael_nielsen 'Freedom from the known'
'A clockwork orange'
'Midnight's children'
'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'
'The Sense of an Ending'
'Kafka on the shore'
'The Light of Asia'

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

Reading is so powerful now because, in a culture of doing so many things at once, it's stubbornly singular, when you're doing it you can't do anything else, you can't think about anything else, it demands all of you

[Gaurav Mathur 🦚 @mathurgaurav]

Doers want to call
Non-doers want to text

[Gems @gemsofbabus_]

Traditional Indian Homes>>>

[Gaurav Mathur 🦚 @mathurgaurav]

@brookeleblanc 'White' by Kenya Hara was interesting (and kind of mysterious)

[Gaurav Mathur 🦚 @mathurgaurav]

It's not exactly the same, there are a ton of subtle changes, and many not so subtle changes.

But indeed most people use it the way they used to, and WhatsApp has done a great job of preserving that experience.

[Deedy @deedydas]

Just learnt that WhatsApp has not 10, not 20, but... 150 designers.

All working tirelessly to make sure the app looks exactly the same as it did in 2014.