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Sahil tends to write these clickbaity Twitter threads. I find that I vehemently dislike this style of writing. I'd much rather read the source of the ideas[0] than someone's unoriginal take on them.

[0] https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html

Same. I was pleasantly surprised by the simplicity of the math and the usefulness of it.

Are 99.99% of developers clueless?

I'm just trying to understand what makes you think that in the field of design, 99.99% of the professionals are clueless? What about in the marketers? Are they also 99.99% clueless?

Trying to learn how non-designers think of the profession/professional designers.

You must work for a really mediocre company?

Design makes or breaks a product. Not sure where you got the impression that it's useless and professional designers gets nothing done.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30822339

Yup. Unfortunately every other Bluetooth headphones suck when it comes to connectivity and stable playing. Been using Airpods Max for a year and never had a connection issue.

The multi-round interview process should be renamed "The Severance procedure."

Any Severance fans?

My Midori notebooks lie flat. Not sure what's going on in that picture

Efficiency is good but not the most important thing when it comes to thinking, idea generation, journaling, etc.

I listened to his short lectures on the Waking Up app. Really enjoyed them and clicked for me. I wonder if it's still worth reading the book.

I do, but I'm not entirely deaf when I wear them. I can hear my surroundings easily if I wanted to. Is there a mode in those VR headsets where one can see what's in front of them without taking them off? I'm ignorant about the tech of VR.

I feel like an old grumpy man saying this, but I hate the idea of wearing a device on my face to literally hijack one of the precious senses one has. I'm sure over time I'll look back and laugh at myself for thinking that way.

I'm from one of the so called poor countries and let me tell you, we aren't that poor. We just have much much higher levels of corruption and static generational wealth. Add to that extremely selfish and poor planning from politicians at the top.

It's funny how you asked a question for people to share their personal stories of how they may have overcame the feelings of "never enough" that you have, but most people are just giving advice. As if they really know the person they're giving advice to.

IMO the insight, self-awareness, or revelation you may be seeking would most likely come from a conversation where you have space to think, reflect, be asked a lot of "Why" questions, and so on.

It amazes me how Medium held the shrine for the BEST blogging platform and the best reading experience for a few years around 2015. Which didn't last long as it became one of the worst platform for writers and readers alike.

How can a company shit the bed so bad?!

Explains the design process and the why: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10640/

Adaptive precision to match the OS and the different tasks the OS accomplishes.

This video explains in more details the thought process behind the design decisions. https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10640/

I use pure black as my wallpaper of choice and I forgot I have a notch on my m1 MBP.

The midnight is gorgeous indeed. I'm also very tempted by the whole package.

The cursor on iPadOS is a game-changer and arguably one of the very few noteworthy UI/UX innovations of the last few years.

IMO it is incredibly well implemented and thought through. And it works amazingly well and serves a clear purpose for the medium which is iPadOS with all of its design details.

In the user interface/interaction world, I'd go as far as calling it genius.

This is something I've never had the guts to do. Do you mind sharing how did it change your life?

uhm... yes and no.

This post fails to explain the core principle of designing websites; the content comes first, always.

1. Write: Write the content first, in google docs or whatever. 2. Edit: Go over your content, edit it. Cut it in half in possible. Remove most of the fluff. 3. Information Hierarchy: Structure your content. Go over this a few times. 4. Emphasis: Given each piece of the content, how best to emphasize it based on what its saying?

Now you're ready to think about design. Browse websites that you like and first focus on their typography. If you understand what makes good typography, you're already more than halfway there.

Obviously there's a lot more to it. My point is your content is your raw material that _needs_ designing. If your content is not good, I don't care how good your design skills are, your website will suck.

macOS has so many essential utilities and tools I can not live without. System wide dictionary and looking up a translation is something I use every single day. Screenshot and screen recording is utility I use every week.

For that reason I never take my phone to the gym. I just enjoy resting between sets. I also try to make my workout as efficient as possible.

I'm curious, do you feel the motives for your voracious information digest are positive or negative? By that I mean, do you feel you're making up for something by wanting to learn as much as you can about different subjects? perhaps some kind of insecurity? Or is it just good old curiosity about the world and trying to be less ignorant each passing day?

The last good show I watched on Netflix was Mindhunter.

You're talking about too many different points in one:

1. How much of someone's suffering and/or depression is due to brain chemical imbalance vs society and environment around them.

2. Would alleviating someone's depression and/or excessive anxiety would make them happy but with indifference to their surrounding, making them oblivious to the environment around them while being in a state of bliss.

3. The ethical dilemma of "fixing" someone by handing them a pill, instead of working on actually improving the real issues that may be contributing to their psychological pain.

I think these are different issues that are not necessarily easy to answer one way or another. Non of these issues are self evidently clear which way should we go about them.

Do you have any data on the effectiveness of talk therapy for patients with depression? Any data on how long it takes for the patient to experience any noticeable relief?

OpenAI is one of the leading companies in AI that makes models with real world applications. I don't see their efforts as misdirected or futile in anyway. If anything I'm always impressed with their announcements because it's always mind blowing what their models can do!

The same technology that is drawing cute unicorns can be used for endless other use cases. Perhaps the PR side of the launch and the subject matter they show unveil their product is just that, PR.

It's like Apple Memoji thing (not sure if I'm spelling it correctly). You can think of as trivial and waste of talent to use their Camera/FaceID to animate cute animals based on facial expression, but that same tech will enable lots other things to come.

Can one really not chose in this situation? What one worships is somewhat synonym with what one values the most. How can a man ever not have something that he values more than other things? On what basis would he act?