Sumin

Designing, and scribbling down my growth pains in tech and life ✝ 👩‍🎨

[Sumin @suminohh]

I used to feel self conscious about sharing my product development process for the fear of being wrong.

There are tons of resources on how to build a product but sometimes following those processes felt forced.

As I continue to interact with creators on Twitter and beyond..

[Vic 🌮 @VicVijayakumar]

buying plants and planting plants are two different hobbies

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

Faith in eventually.

Making something new takes patience. But it also takes faith. Faith that everything will work out in the end.

During the development of most any product, there are always times when things aren’t quite right. Times when you feel like you may be going backwards a bit. Times where it’s almost there, but you can’t yet figure out why it isn’t. Times when you hate the thing today that you loved yesterday. Times when what you had in your head isn’t quite what you’re seeing in front of you. Yet. That’s when you need to have faith.

There are designs that are close, but not there yet. There are obvious conflicts that will need to be resolved. There are lingering things that confound you, confuse you, or upset you, but you know that eventually they’ll work themselves out. Eventually you’ll find the right way to do something you’ve been struggling with.

It’s hard to live with something that isn’t quite right yet – especially when it’s your job to get it right. It’s important to know when to say “it’s fine for now, but it won’t be fine for later.” Because moving forward is critical to getting somewhere. And, eventually, you’ll figure it all out. It’ll all work out in the end.

This is what I’ve always believed, and have always tried to practice. A dedicated faith in the eventual resolution of a problem, the eventual execution of a concept, and the eventual realization of the right design. Even when something’s poking out you don’t like, or something isn’t aligning quite right, or the words aren’t as elegant as you’d hoped, or something just isn’t easy enough yet, you need to have confidence it’ll all come together eventually.

Remember that what you’re making is in a perpetual state of almost right up until the end. And it's never right even after.

In the meantime, you just press on and keep making things, trying things, and getting closer and closer to the time when you can tie the loose ends into a perfect bow and present it to the world. What fun it is!

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

I heard an interview today about AI in creative spaces and the man being interviewed said “AI is data, and Data can only look backwards. Creativity looks forwards.” And I need to sit with that in the best possible way.

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

Love this reminder from @tfadell

"Makers often focus on the shiny object—the product they’re building—and forget about the rest of the journey until they’re almost ready to deliver it to the customer. But customers see it all, experience it all. They’re the ones taking the journey, step-by-step."

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

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[Sumin @suminohh]

@NaithanJones I'm really sorry for your loss Naithan. I'll keep you two in my prayers

[swan @lacedheartgrl]

newest obsession: the mary magdalene church in poland

[Peter Yang @petergyang]

Craft > slop

I love using AI to generate things too but craft is in that last 10% where you manually apply your taste to make something you can be proud of.

Many people never bother.

[François Chollet @fchollet]

You cannot think your way to a perfect design. Only building and testing, over many iterations, can reveal the flaws in your mental model and provide the feedback you need to create the best design possible.

[Sumin @suminohh]

@JulieChangRE They work great but they had a recall for their lids. They've been sending out replacement lids if you have a faulty one

[Josh Kraushaar @JoshKraushaar]

Ben Sasse: "What’s really happening is these superdevices in our pockets — the largest tools any median individual’s ever had access to in all of human history — allow our consciousness to leave the time and place where we actually live, the places where we break bread, the people who are living next door to us, the people that you can physically touch and hug, the small platoons of real community, and we allow our consciousness to go really far away"

[Sumin @suminohh]

@awerhun Good Friday is a holiday in the state of Georgia!

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

I quite like Dorothy Sayers' answer from her 1942 essay Why Work?. Quality work inherently honors God and His creation. We spend too much time assigning moral weight and obsessing over moral frameworks for work, when instead we could just do Good Work and that alone is enough.

[Sumin @suminohh]

@dtcpages AG1

[Sumin @suminohh]

@tyler_agg quiz

[Sumin @suminohh]

@xcollinm @coolbutstinky it's probably noguchi knockoff

[Sumin @suminohh]

@JulieChangRE @NewportBeachNBT @mountainwesttax I have this exact steamer and it's a game changer for cleaning grout in the tub/shower area. It works even better if you spray vinegar before hand. Instruction recommends using distilled water. Another caveat is that it can get pretty loud so I use ear plugs.

[Sumin @suminohh]

@lennysan Is this a paid community?

[Sumin @suminohh]

@mwmoedinger What if there's not enough room beside the mirror to add lights? 🥲