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Vibe Coding Camp: build real products with AISponsored

A hands-on program for designers and PMs who want to actually build—using Cursor, Supabase, Vercel, and AI-first workflows.

andrew.grahamyooll.com

Try to take my position

"You want to get promoted? Try to take my position." Here's why this was the best career advice ever.

hnbooks.pieterma.es

Hacker News book map

The 1000 most popular books on Hacker News visualized on an interactive map.

ideas.zudiay.me

World map of human ideas

Explore the birthplaces of ideas that shaped civilization.

nngroup.com

Humanizing AI is a trap

LLMs humanize by design. Adding personality/emotion amplifies risk. Design real tools, not fake friends.

draganbabic.com

Humans "in the loop"

As soon as people are out of the trenches of their work, their motivation for the quality of said work deteriorates.

vaughntan.org

Judgment from the ground up

Critical thinking is foundational for making decisions that require subjective judgment.

tool-ui.com

Tool UI

Beautiful UI components for AI tool calls.

terriblesoftware.org

Life happens at 1x speed

Why I stopped consuming content at 2x speed, and the simple rule that changed how I listen to everything.

mikefisher.substack.com

More efficiency, more demand

The future of software engineers and data scientists is bright.

tonsky.me

It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons

Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe.

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bikemap.nyc

Visualization of the entire history of Citi Bike, the largest bike-sharing system in the US.

aidesignfieldguide.com

AI Design Field Guide

Learn techniques from the designers behind OpenAI, Anthropic, Figma, Notion & more.

figma.com

Software is culture

To understand what’s next as software grows more intelligent, we look back on 20 years of interaction design.

tomtunguz.com

The done list

How the disappearing middle of work changes everything about planning & productivity.

davekiss.com

Ideas are cheap, execution is cheaper

In a world where ideas are cheap and software is cheaper, what truly matters now?

wholeearth.info

Whole Earth index

A nearly-complete archive of Whole Earth publications, published by Stewart Brand and the POINT Foundation between 1968 and 2002.

itshover.com

Its hover

Animated icons that move with intent.

jarango.com

The Moylan arrow

How traditional structural principles can inform the design of AI-powered products and services.

eleganthack.com

Your resolution isn’t the problem; your measurement is

It’s January, and millions of people have made the same resolution: “Eat better.” By February, most will have abandoned it.