Words

“Though the outside world looks at success from a numer­ical point of view, my yardstick might be quite different than that. My yardstick may be how every computer that’s designed from here on out will have to be at least as good as a Macintosh.”

—Steve Jobs

“When you feel butterflies in your stomach, that’s when you should speak. Because it means you have something important to say.”

People call these things imperfections Will. It's just who we are. And we get to choose who we're going to let into out weird little worlds. You're not perfect. And let me save you the suspense, this girl you met isn't either. The question is, whether or not you're perfect for each other.

“I'll tell you what: If I could do it all over again, I'd spend more time helping others. All I've ever done is dig tunnels. Some of them were real beauties too, but they're all hidden underground, where they're no good to anyone but me.”
**Peter Brown, The Wild Robot**

how they behave when it's not in public tells you an awful lot about who they are

**jony ive**

Your honesty is a gift, even if at times a painful one.
—Albus Dumbledore

A still from the 1990 film <n>Dreams</n>, directed by <n>Akira Kurosawa</n>.

we all make stuff—the goal is to make it with purpose

—virgil abloh

I forgot how good it felt to be held by you.

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years, you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know it’s normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take a while. It’s normal to take a while. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”

— Ira Glass

A panel from the <n>Peanuts</n> comic strip, created by <n>Charles Schulz</n>.

So, Hannah... This is where your story begins. The day they departed. Despite knowing the journey... and where it leads... I embrace it. And I welcome every moment of it.

There’s no shortcut.

We interviewed a lot of people at Campsite it’s pretty obvious within a few minutes if someone notices/prioritizes visual design details, thinks about UX, considers accessibility, etc. From the pool of people who know and care about these things, then you focus on finding people who mostly “get it right” by default — i.e. have they already acquired enough taste and skills to not need much guidance and make things look good + feel right on the first or second pass.

If I remember correctly, our interview exercise was to design a multi-select dropdown menu. You could immediately tell if someone was a good fit if they started thinking about how the items in the menu should reorder based on the selection, how to support keyboard navigation and shortcuts, etc.

We also created a culture that rewarded + reinforced great design-oriented frontend engineering: everyone was hyper attuned to janky animations, dropped frames, misaligned elements, incorrect colors, etc. This “intuition” only comes from constantly sharing when things are wrong and describing *why* they’re wrong. You have to help people build an intuition for what “good” and “correct” looks like.

How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold.

Funny how historic days seem so ordinary when you're living them. Well, perhaps that's what happens when the world gets things right. It's jolly nice to know it happens occasionally.
—Albus Dumbledore

Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.

My state of mind and how I am in my practice ultimately is going to be embodied in my work. If I’m consumed with anxiety that’s how the work will end up.

—Jony Ive

You've got to find what you love—and that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large par of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking—and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don't settle.
—Steve Jobs

Die Seele des Ganzen lebt in den Details.
—Mies van der Rohe

The dead tree is as important as the living one.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
—Albus Dumbledore 


everything interacts and is dependent on other things. we must think more thoroughly about what we are doing, how we are doing it, and why we are doing it.
—dieter rams

The key to succeeding in a relationship is not finding the right person; it's learning to love the person you found.

Like a wind in the trees,
unexpected events
shake a man’s placid life,
creating an interplay of
shadow and light.

"Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect."

Why? Because of the pain I feel now? I have regrets Will, but I don't regret a single day I spent with her.

Everything you see here has a story. There’s a story attached to everything people do, that has to be told. Even in the case of objects I don’t like, there’s still a story. Why was it made that way? Is it just the material? It’s not comfortable, you can see just by looking at it. That’s the story behind the object. Only then does one grasp its meaning.

You’ll have bad times, but it’ll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren’t paying attention to.

The most innovative products emerged without explicit customer requests. Nobody asked for the first iPhone, Airbnb, or Figma. These products came from vision and intuition.

There’s nothing that’s more emotionally transformative than music