Bookmarks

Riding the Leopard

13 Observations on Ritual

Effort is the duty of today

Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process

The dawn of the post-literate society

Choose Good Quests

Means and Meaning

On Principles

Discipline Comes from Having No Choice

Why I Run

How to end your extremely online era

How Social Media Shortens Your Life

Thank you for being annoying

What Is An Extraordinary Man?

Face it: you're a crazy person

How to do product positioning

research as leisure activity

Relentlessly Resourceful

Reality has a surprising amount of detail

Impact, agency, and taste

PBS - JOHN GARDNER - EDUCATION AND EXCELLENCE

Long Questions/Short Answers

Polishing the problem

If—

The Most Precious Resource is Agency

A funny thing about curiosity

You and your research

on leading a purposeless life

How to Do Great Work

exert, allow, rest, repeat

Almost everyone I’ve met would be well-served thinking more about what to focus on

A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox

To Get Good, Go After The Metagame

On giving up control

How to think in writing

Relationships are coevolutionary loops

Surely you can be serious

Work in progress: heuristics

Product Design Is Lost

Career Advice

Good conversations have lots of doorknobs

How to be More Agentic

When to Design for Emergence

Notes on “Taste”

How I use memory systems

So you wanna de-bog yourself

A Techno-Industrialist Manifesto

High Variance Management

Get Numb Before You Get Good

routines, rituals, meaning

A unified theory of fucks

Work hard and take everything really seriously

Looking for Alice

In Defense of Strategy

You Should Be Working On Hardware

The days are long but the decades are short

The Truth is Always Made of Details

The Most Precious Resource is Agency

Start With Creation

Choose Good Quests

The Gulf Between Design and Engineering

confidence

callings

Quit Your Job

How to enjoy SF

Optimizing for Taste

The Rebalancing of Design Management

Concept design in three easy steps

Invisible Details of Interaction Design

Understanding Value

The Kool-Aid Factory

Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born

Hire More Designers, OK?

Ira Glass on Storytelling

Fierce Nerds

no good alone

Why we stopped making Einsteins

Pure UI

Looking Out for Number One

always-already-programming.md

friend groups

Domain Knowledge or a lack thereof

Slow design

The best general advice on earth

making and keeping friends

Bringing Design to Software

Don’t Kill Time

What Screens Want

Radical Responsibility

the mechanics of work: are you talky talky or clicky clicky?

Will Wright on Designing User Interfaces to Simulation Games

Technical dimensions of programming systems

The Cost of Craft

Good Cogs and Their Tools

People can read their manager's mind

Letters to a Young Technologist

High Variance Management

Solving problems with fuzzy constraints

Execution is Exponential

Operating Well: What I Learned at Stripe