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Discipline Comes from Having No Choice

Why I Run

How to end your extremely online era

Thank you for being annoying

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

Face it: you're a crazy person

How to do product positioning

research as leisure activity

Relentlessly Resourceful

PBS - JOHN GARDNER - EDUCATION AND EXCELLENCE

Long Questions/Short Answers

Polishing the problem

If—

Speed matters

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

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

Craft

Staring into the abyss as a core life skill

To Get Good, Go After The Metagame

How to think in writing

Surely you can be serious

Work in progress: heuristics

Product Design Is Lost

Career Advice

There’s no speed limit

Good conversations have lots of doorknobs

How to be More Agentic

Notes on “Taste”

So you wanna de-bog yourself

A Techno-Industrialist Manifesto

High Variance Management

Becoming a magician

Get Numb Before You Get Good

routines, rituals, meaning

A unified theory of fucks

Work hard and take everything really seriously

The Web’s Grain

Quit Your Job

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

Things you're allowed to do

The Gulf Between Design and Engineering

confidence

callings

Quit Your Job

How to enjoy SF

Optimizing for Taste

When to Design for Emergence

The Rebalancing of Design Management

Concept design in three easy steps

Invisible Details of Interaction Design

Understanding Value

Make me think!

The Kool-Aid Factory

Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born

Hire More Designers, OK?

Ira Glass on Storytelling

Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule

Fierce Nerds

no good alone

High Bit-rate People

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

Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket

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

Life is Short

Ideas That Changed My Life

Analogy as the Core of Cognition

How To Be Successful

Rest in motion