Wisdom

<n>Jonathan Ive</n> speaking at a talk at <n>South Park Commons</n>.

“Taste is kind of a dirty word.”

Everyone’s obsessed with taste in the AI era. Jonathan Arena @jonathan_arena argues sensibility is the creative’s true superpower.

Check out our full Design Fireside at @southpkcommons

This guy literally dropped the best life advice you’ll ever hear

The best math you can learn is how to calculate the future cost of current decisions.

This guy will cure your laziness watch it till the end 💯

Getting Your Dopamine From Information Gathering, an illustration from <n>The 5 Types of Wealth</n>.

Wrote a thing about agentic design systems

I think we're at a critical (and positive!) time for systems teams to elevate work away from component libraries and into blueprints that are interconnected across the entire business

This person literally shows why systems thinking is the #1 skill in tech right now

This guy literally shows how to think, sell, and lead like a real entrepreneur

Stanford paid 35,000 people to quit social media.

This was the largest study on emotional health in history.

The results were so shocking, scientists called it "comparable to therapy."

Here's what happens when you break free from the algorithm: 🧵

She literally shows how to rewire your brain to think in systems

Two years ago this came out. 

I still get texts and emails weekly from people who just discovered it telling me its the most useful decision making book they've ever read. 

It's helped people lose weight and get in the best shape of their life. It's helped people find and

The top 20 most mentioned books on my podcast

A daily boost of intelligence 
Links in the comments.

designer A:
- S tier design skills
- B tier communication skills

designer B:
- B tier design skills 
- S tier communication skills

Designer B will make way more money and their clients will be happier.

a mistake that cost me 5 years: thinking preparation was progress. reading every book. taking every course. planning every detail. meanwhile, someone dumber than me started badly and figured it out. preparation feels productive but it's often just fear dressed up as strategy. you

This guy literally dropped the smartest mental health advice you’ll ever hear

Reddit - The heart of the internet

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/s/9wJHaMkS2z

One of my favorite lessons I’ve learnt from working with smart people:

Action produces information. If you’re unsure of what to do, just do anything, even if it’s the wrong thing. This will give you information about what you should actually be doing.

Sounds simple on the

this is the best business book ever written

its basically a man who ran the st louis fed telling you how he cofounded Square with jack dorsey 

this is the best business book ever written

Save Your Startup, Unleash Your Golden Shadow

Most people don't have money problems, they have emotional management and focus problems.

You need a product or service, people to buy it, and the ability to learn and iterate. That's it. You know that. You just can't sit down and do it, and you can't see through the illusions

Tech products including the <n>Yoto Player</n>, <n>Yoto Mini</n>, <n>Loftie Clock</n>, and <n>Puro Sound Labs headphones</n>.

If you are waiting until 14 (or high school) to give your child a smartphone, here's a list of excellent tech gifts you can give instead, which increase friendship, freedom, and fun, with no addiction. 
From @SmartphoneFreeC

One thing I keep noticing: top performers in any role can "codify" excellence.

Great example from @bobmcgrewai.

Mark Cuban: You only have to be right one time.

An illustration about <n>First Principles</n> thinking, featuring a quote from <n>Grace Hopper</n>.

Someone used Elon Musk's actual thinking framework as AI prompts.

It's the closest thing to having a billionaire engineer rip apart your ideas and rebuild them from physics.

Here are the 15 prompts that changed how I solve problems:

A system of thinking to help you solve any problem.

This guy literally teaches the best focus method you’ll ever see

Engineers don't design bridges for average conditions. They design them for extremes and then add a buffer on top.

This is the margin of safety. It's the gap between what a system can handle and what it's required to handle. It's the wiggle room that keeps you safe when things

<n>Hemeon's Pocket Guide to Design</n> by designer <n>Marc Hemeon</n>, 2025.

I put together 15 principles of what I think it means to be a great designer. 

I wanted to summarize 30 years of hard earned lessons and share them with you. 

Text version in the comments.

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Thinking in systems requires that you focus on cause, effect and control beyond surface level events.
A very powerful skill right now in today's AI era.

Link in the comments, I  also dropped an article link :)

From the article <n>Publishing your work increases your luck</n> by <n>Aaron Francis</n> for <n>The ReadME Project</n>.

If you build it, don’t forget to publish it

high agency is the most important quality you'll ever look for in people.

It's the difference between someone who sees a locked door and walks away, versus someone who finds the key, picks the lock, or builds a new door.

Here's what I've learned about high agency and why it