working backwards from magic, intuition-led designer, tacit knowledge fiend, networked note-maker
Joined October 2007
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4 Aug 2020
Making progress with multi-directional notes (heavily based on @andy_matuschak's notes) where a note link stacks to the right by default but can also be placed via W, A, S and D keys click as a directional modifier for above, left, below and right.
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This was a really, really good listen. I can't get the IBM ad from the 1950s that Benedict mentioned out of my head. IBM's electronic calculator was like having "150 extra engineers" (and didn't seem to usher in a wave of tech layoffs).
May 31
A rational conversation on where AI is actually going with @benedictevans
For 20 years, Benedict has been one of the clearest, most reliable thinkers on where technology is heading, and how it'll impact our lives. He was @a16z's resident "thinker" for 5 years, and has spent the last six as an independent analyst tracking the most important tech trends. As you’d expect, he’s spending all of his time on AI. In his words, "AI is eating the world."
We discuss:
🔸 Where value will actually accrue in the AI stack
🔸 Why AI labs are suddenly buying consulting firms
🔸 The rise in anti-AI sentiment, and where it leads
🔸 Why distribution is becoming the ultimate moat
🔸 Why the right question about your job isn’t “What percent can AI do?” but “Is this a task or a job?”
🔸 Why things will probably be okay
Listen now 👇
youtu.be/BD3vLtWhT5A
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Jun 13
Browser aesthetics rethinking printed matter: why not use page numbers as a "scroll bar." Internal links to another page can be displayed at the corresponding Y height on the scroll bar.
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The best feature of AI discourse is the shift from the materialist thinking (particularly in design circles) around the mechanical thingness of things towards poking around the deeper aliveness of a thing.
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There is definitely a subtle, felt sense around effort. My hunch is that we've subconsciously started tracking a lot more of these subtle things with media/content which sets off that uncanny valley-ish feeling.
Jun 12
Thinking about "creative time density": how many person-hours/years went into this specific artifact/place/experience?
It's a reliable awe trigger for me. Performers spending hundreds of hours preparing a few minutes of material for a big show, a scholar spending a decade on a book, a Ghibli film, cathedrals.
Not fully reliable ofc—doesn't capture the awe in jazz, plein-air painting, etc. But I think the absence of creative time density says something about what's missing in slop. At least in improv arts there's expertise density, which is a different kind of time density.
Fun related concept is "auteurial time density"—how many hours/years of *one person's* idiosyncratic creative perspective is represented here? Gaudi, Welles, Klint, Caro, etc
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I had a french professor who once said if you just did something like going to the supermarket and experienced it fully without the goggles of habit and catégories you would go crazy with pure sense and joy. I think about it all the time. In a way this is all for him.
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Jun 11
i made a website that turns your microphone into a paint brush
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A day in Manhattan, warped so that distance ≈ drive time. Drive times swell in the morning and evening rush hour, then contract in the night.
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I 3D scanned my stump and my ax and my wood and recorded my ax motions and splitting sounds and made it into a super satisfying firewood splitting simulator (vibecoded with Antigravity/Claude in threejs)
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the border-radius police are almost as annoying as the design systems people.
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Love the fact that Sony is making transparent tech in 2026. sony.co.uk/gaming-gear/produ…
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Very much in the same vein as this. The world needs more see through hardware.
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Jun 9
How it started vs how it’s going | #XBOXShowcase
ALT Photo of the OG Xbox in translucent green
ALT Photo of the XBOX Series X25 Limited Edition console in translucent green
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ha, they're actually gonna do it.
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I don't _think_ there is a general consumer demand for annual software updates, particularly sweeping UI changes?
I'd like to see Apple take the Snow Leopard model with Liquid Glass and take time to hit the quality bar that they had set for their finest Mac OS X release.
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Please God! Trillions are being spent on data centres and AI chips, but the investment in design and UX seems to be zero.
Soon, someone will come along with a B-plus model and an A-plus interface and VHS the whole thing.
The Blackberry was objectively much better than the first Iphone.
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Jun 8
Belgian visual artist Carole Louis is the creator of "Through Thousands," a sculpture constructed from thousands of plastic straws.
Like fiber optics, basically thousands of tiny “straws” guiding light across huge distances at near-light speed.
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May 28
Meltdown’s bitmap font showing its own encoded data.
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May 26
i made snake but the only way to move is by playing guitar chords
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May 24
made a site that picks the closest rothko for how the weather feels outside your window
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Vib-Ribbon was a 1999 PS1 miracle. The game loaded entirely into the console's RAM, letting you swap the game disc for any music CD you owned.
The game analyzed your tracks to procedurally generate levels in real time.
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