<n>Steve Jobs</n> with an <n>Apple Macintosh</n> in Woodside, CA, 1984. Photo by <n>Norman Seeff</n>.

The user interface of the <n>How We Feel</n> app, created by the <n>Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence</n>.

The Creative Gap, Linus Rogge

Designer <n>Linus Rogge</n> at his first job.

<n>Steve Jobs</n> at the <n>Apple</n> offices in Cupertino, 1997. Photo by <n>Diana Walker</n> for <n>Time Magazine</n>.

there’s also a big social shift in boredom that largely affects our ability to focus and think more deeply imo

we almost never get to sit in silence and sort our thoughts. we’re either working or consuming media slop from fear of losing our jobs or of being “out of touch”

Why is quality so rare? - Linear

I’ve been saying

There is an incompetence epidemic

The bar has never been lower

You can steamroll your entire generation just by actually working hard, understanding nuance, having good critical thinking abilities, working on your sense of agency, and not watching Reels

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Radix Icons

A 1982 portrait of <n>Steve Jobs</n> in his Woodside home, photographed by <n>Diana Walker</n> for <n>Time Magazine</n>.

A screenshot of the <n>ryOS window manager</n>, developed by <n>Ryo Lu</n>.

Who / Jia

The personal website of designer and writer <n>Helena Zhang</n>.

<n>Design Engineering</n>, a document of notes and resources by <n>Flo</n>.

A look at the retro-inspired website for AI company <n>Tavus</n>.

The logo for the <n>twocents</n> mobile app from developer <n>TwoCent Inc.</n>

The user interface for <n>ryOS</n>, a custom operating system by <n>Ryo Lu</n>.

i just accidentally localized ryOS in 6 languages, in 4 hours with @cursor_ai 

how i did it:

• start in plan mode, make architectural decisions that the agent would like

• ask agent to write and run scripts for procedures like extract, key compare, batch translation with

> "People hate fake work"

No, they don't. People love fake work.

How to become expert at thing:
1 iteratively take on concrete projects and accomplish them depth wise, learning “on demand” (ie don’t learn bottom up breadth wise)
2 teach/summarize everything you learn in your own words
3 only compare yourself to younger you, never to others

Notes on Managing ADHD

Fireworks, a 1919 painting by <n>Joseph Stella</n>.

Branding image for <n>The Summit California</n>.

Bauhaus Clock - Elegant Timepiece Screensaver for macOS

Phosphor Icons

Website for the <n>ElevenLabs Worldwide Hackathon</n> designed by <n>Nev Flynn</n> and <n>Jay Gunson</n>.

Icons for <n>Grammarly</n> representing writing, thinking, voice, and attention, by <n>Smith & Diction</n>.

A UI concept for Apple's virtual assistant, <n>Siri</n>.