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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. — T.S. Eliot

I’ve found that enlisting people as protectors of a cause helps them embrace that need for themselves.

Looking for limitations is about extending care to your future self.

There's nothing glamorous about being a designer at a startup. It's a role that frequently values speed and pragmatism over going deep in the craft. It's not all big launches, viral tweets, building for happy paths, and clear-cut product requirements.

Aligning yourself in this way is difficult, but such is the case for the most meaningful endeavors in life. Difficulty requires ingenuity, and ingenuity is what makes you feel like you’re working toward your potential. The thing about potential, however, is that it’s invisible and can’t be photographed on a magazine cover. But having integrity is about trusting that it’s there, even if you’re the only one that can see it.

Relaxation is calm alertness guided by love; and as such it often induces great effort, growth, learning, and transformation.

Desperation is the single greatest advantage you have as a startup. It takes you down to the lowest level of detail. Desperation inspires creativity and intense focus. It is an essential ingredient to building great products and services.

My own magic is a small one: to write in order to uncover what I think; to prefigure a future of work that serves the living; to listen intently as people speak aloud a story of themselves that is, in the speaking, being rewritten.

Thoughts and Observations in the Wake of Apple’s ‘It’s Glowtime’ Keynote.

Without hope, there can be no ambition, and I believe that ambition is critical to the development of a healthy mind. The only reason you work on something is because there’s something you’re working toward, and it’s this ability to envision a future state that makes challenge possible in the first place.

There's a difference between a process and a toolbox. There's no "right order" for applying these tools. They don't make up a process. Each tool is a small thing used in a response to a specific challenge in a specific moment.

Six habits for mental clarity, creative insight; and ironically, sustained productivity.

Guillaume shared this with me on Posts. I've downloaded just about every app on the list.

It can't hit 217 mph, but it did complete a lap at the Silverstone Circuit.

This journey isn’t just about completing code; it’s about growing as a developer and creator. Each finished project, no matter how small, is a step towards becoming someone who not only starts with enthusiasm but finishes with satisfaction.

It’s a small thing, but lots of small splinters lead to an agonizing experience.

A minimalist design exploration.

Cursor party on your website 😮

MagSafe for coats!

Everyone deserves the opportunity to do this: to find the thing they love as much as my companion-in-conversation at a boring event loved butterflies, and to contribute their spark to it, which might even be the inspiration for the next person.

Seriousness is love and curiosity expressed earnestly.

Give yourself permission to exist and be seen regardless of whether you have a blog, side projects or “content” - whatever it means.

A nice iteration after the Macintosh Studio.

Everything in the design process is also completely disposable. It gives us the freedom to experiment and work at an incredibly fast pace as a unit.

Genius framework!

Don’t use dumb quotes for quotations or apostrophes—the nerds will revolt.

I paid attention to things I liked to do, and found ways to do more of that. I made it easy for interesting people to find me, and then I hung out with them. We did projects together. I kept iterating—paying attention to the context, removing things that frustrated me, and expanding things that made me feel alive. Eventually, I looked up and noticed that my life was nothing like I imagined it would be. But it fit me.

Whether you believe that it’s worthwhile or worthless to copy, whether you think that copies are a valuable part of the design community or a scourge, you are using software, hardware, websites and apps that all owe their existence to copying.

Great writeup, and very nice interactions.

The best method for doing great design work is writing. In prose. Not in bullet points, not wireframes, not diagrams, and never spreadsheets.

The things we make are never done. There’s always the next feature or pivot or bug or optimization. In this way, digital design is inherently ephemeral. Our work was never meant to exist forever, and honestly, it would be a shame if it did.

When in doubt, use the system font stack.