“Digit”al Computers

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Summer combo!

Video as an interactive medium. Not passive content.

Reminded of this post I wrote long time ago (so many typos) on finding people who share your weltanshauung To do something differently you need to look at the world differently. Ask a different question. tuhin.co/the-philosophy…

David Foster Wallace on the internet, way back in 1996. "Like at a certain point we're gonna have to build up some machinery, inside our guts, to help us deal with this. Because the technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it’s gonna get

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What are historical examples of 2? Fb, IG were closer to 1 around founding. OpenAI for first 6-7 years was a 2.

Congrats friends Figma! Great stuff Dylan Field Noah Levin and co! Proud moment for design community!! 🖤

Who has talked/written about canva & figma? Growth channels, positioning… I find it fascinating that canva went the non obvious route (consumers and casual hobbyists) and has thrived despite figma being THE tool for UI and building products. Cc Kevin Kwok

Video as an interactive medium

Evolution of video over the years and a little into the future (as I see it). Video as public media (News) ↓ Video as content (TV, Films) ↓ Video as personal expression (Tiktok/Reels) ↓ "Video" as an interactive medium (real time models/) ↓ "Video" as a programmable

this is all great advice from Julie Zhuo! some thoughts. 1) my hot take is that if you are a good founding designer material (0-1 product, not post-PMF), and thats what you are interested in doing then you should seriously consider doing your own thing/co-founding. similar risk,

I think last I was this impressed by something was the chatgpt demo in 2022. This is even more impressive esp when you consider folks in the field knew this was going to happen sooner or later. Fingers crossed the real experience is not too far from cherry picked examples.

Story time - One of these (How we use Origami, 2012) was how I met Drew Hamlin and crew. Eventually ending up at FB cause Drew was relentless with helping people - he helped find why a recruiter for PM function was not replying to my partner (turns out she was on a long PTO).

visual thinking + distillation writing is also thinking + distillation

yitong I feel like there is nuance to what you are saying that is too subtle. Technical founders are a thing. And a more typical path. Often we give names to new things we want to see more of/glamorize it. That’s why design founder is a thing. Ultimately all founders (+ early

On one hand yeah I get what they are trying to say. This was a major share of my net worth + with cap gains so not easy to shed off - so I felt the pain of stock not growing. But friendly reminder that Booking Holdings is not ONE company. It’s closer to LVMH or Kering model.