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medhir.com

Right to root access

Right to repair laws should include provisions requiring manufacturers to unlock a device’s bootloader upon consumer request.

pjonori.blog

Consistency means nothing

The word consistency is a loaded term in my work. If you ask five people what consistency is, you’ll get ten different answers.

garden.bradwoods.io

Browser adaptation

Stories are often adapted from their original medium to a different one. This note explores the opportunity the browser offers.

allenpike.com

An unreasonable amount of time

A method for magic.

vinay.sh

I am rich and have no idea what to do with my life

Life has been a haze this last year. After selling my company, I find myself in the totally un-relatable position of never having to work again.

caltech.edu

Thinking slowly: the paradoxical slowness of human behavior

A new Caltech study quantifies the speed of human thought processes and finds that we think, remember, and process remarkably slowly.

map.simonsarris.com

Resist summary

Painfully quick thoughts about AI.

scottrichmond.me

The web is too big, or scaling down

The problem with this situation isn't that Mozilla or Firefox aren't good enough. It's that the web is too complicated.

posting-nexus.ghost.io

Here’s what the fight for your attention really looks like

How does the dissolution of the line between personal and professional time impact our willingness to connect outside of our phones?

medium.com

52 things I learned in 2024

This year I took a sabbatical and learned many learnings.

creativeboom.com

Cancelling criticism culture

This year, we’ve seen countless posts about rebrands, but do we need to draw a bolder line when critiquing design work?

erikgahner.dk

AI will be dead in five years

There is this joke that people do statistics in R, machine learning in Python, and AI in PowerPoint. (I did not say it is a funny joke.)

nytimes.com

Is creativity dead?

Or is the algorithm just hiding it from you?

errorprone.info

How to think about time

Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. —Ray Cummings

themarginalian.org

18 life learnings from 18 years of The Marginalian

Somewhere along the way, you realize that no one will teach you how to live your own life.

blog.jim-nielsen.com

Contrast is clarifying

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

terrain.com

Design literacy

Design Literacy in the Age of Intelligent Automation.

kottke.org

Does every species get a billion heartbeats per lifetime?

There’s an assumption that because of the relationship between metabolic rates, volume, and surface area, animals get 1B heartbeats per lifetime.

strangeloopcanon.com

When we become cogs

On motivation and technology.

orkohunter.net

Why don’t you move abroad?

An Indian’s answer from the Heart instead of the Mind.