Sajid Reshamwala

designer, researcher, aspiring raconteur @ Google

[Sajid Reshamwala @sajidresh]

@skirano Super interesting work and thanks for sharing.
I'm super mixed on this! On one hand remixing is part of the creative process but also, of course it's fast to steal from others :) Thoughts on authorship and attribution?

[Sajid Reshamwala @sajidresh]

@karpathy I love this. It’s interesting how easy it is to wander into this cut and paste world of coding where you end up with a peace of clay that no longer feels like clay when you touch it and you couldn’t even mold it with your fingers anymore if you wanted to.

[Sajid Reshamwala @sajidresh]

Hot take: memory foam is our generation’s waterbed

[Sajid Reshamwala @sajidresh]

@tjhennessey How does a city like Durham end up with so many pickleball courts but no outdoor basketball courts? Who are we inviting(or not inviting) to gather? Otherwise, congrats.

[Sajid Reshamwala @sajidresh]

@EvanZhao6 Hey Evan, I'm a friend of Richard Morgan(!). His phone broke in Tokyo but he's still on for your interview on Thursday, though it might be a bit delayed that day. In the meantime, he was wondering if you could pass on your cell #. Cheers!

[Sajid Reshamwala @sajidresh]

Existentialism:
~There is not a meaning to life. Instead, we're all in charge of figuring out what the meaning of our own life is.*

*This figuring out never ends.

[Sajid Reshamwala @sajidresh]

A sticker company is putting together a 8 - 15 person AI team 🤯😳😆? Seems obvious but also seems like a signal of something 👀
https://t.co/80Tb3oCjV5

[Sajid Reshamwala @sajidresh]

@carlvellotti 🤖

[Sajid Reshamwala @sajidresh]

...and engagement is a runaway metric.

[Sajid Reshamwala @sajidresh]

"[Bullshitters] don’t care whether something is true or false. They care only about rhetorical power"
This captures so much of the dangers of this tech. If we're optimizing for engagement, we're optimizing for persuasiveness and not truth...
https://t.co/O0WhHGwRNP

[Sajid Reshamwala @sajidresh]

@EWDiamond My push is that it's not what people think they're getting or, more importantly, what the world thinks they're getting from giving people MBAs. MBAs are more like a swiss army knife that you take camping and then realize you accidentally bought the kitchen cutlery edition.

[Sajid Reshamwala @sajidresh]

Getting an MBA is like getting a map of the world, but then realizing that the map only shows the roads and buildings and not the earth and water that sits underneath.

#mba #bschool #disenchantment

[Sajid Reshamwala @sajidresh]

@tedgioia liked your bit on The State of the Culture 👌. Looking into the report behind the "86% of young people want to be influencers", it looks like the article that references this number is misleading, more like 86% would post sponsored content.
https://t.co/g0yr9ch4g6

[Sajid Reshamwala @sajidresh]

@stlouisfed This doesn't make sense. Confusion was an emotion felt by others. You can't regret what others felt or did, only your own actions. But it sounds like you're not willing to actually admit regret, let alone take responsibility. This is a non-apology.

[Sajid Reshamwala @sajidresh]

@iamharaldur [Takes hit from Eamesian Bong]: It's all data maaaaan.
❤️❤️❤️

[Sajid Reshamwala @sajidresh]

Can product research move from giving underserved users voice to giving underserved users ownership of the product? The first is about shared empathy, the second is about shared power.

But maybe that's outside the scope of product research.
#designresearch #productdesign

[Sajid Reshamwala @sajidresh]

"There are strong signs that people are resisting the atomization of everything. It’s suited capitalism to have us all as separate as possible because then we have to all buy things individually."

https://t.co/TL568ziVkS

[Sajid Reshamwala @sajidresh]

Why are private lotteries illegal in so many states that run lotteries? Is it because states know they're predatory? What better argument am I missing?

[Sajid Reshamwala @sajidresh]

@clippercard what happens if I select "do not replace card"? Does my money on the card vanish?

[Sajid Reshamwala @sajidresh]

"Are the workers being paid less than minimum wage because these are now tipped jobs?"
+100, cashless + tip reco's feel like they're giving tipping culture an unwanted new shot at life.
The Cost of Going Cashless https://t.co/PnqWqRa8gY