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• Microsoft AI7 savers
• After Work — Asterisk Magazine11 savers
• Compositor – The Photoshop alternative for Mac1 savers
• Dylan Hageman | Colorist3 savers
• Iverson2 savers
• Inflight - Feedback for your prototypes1 savers
• Brian Chan2 savers
• Somatic science - movement and research · Luma1 savers
• Carolyn Zhang | I’m an independent digital designer based in New York.1 savers
• falcone.design2 savers
• Hermes Agent — An Agent That Grows With You | Nous Research5 savers
• Compound Engineering | Cursor Plugins1 savers
• Some remarks on being stuck, with digressions on David Hockney, developing style, and gardens8 savers
• Human-centered AI Technologies in Human-robot Interaction for Social Settings | Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia1 savers
• The Politics of Digital Technologies: Reimagining Social Participation in the Digital Age1 savers
• Computers are social actors1 savers
• Computers are social actors | Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems1 savers
• Built by Designers: No Explanation Needed2 savers
• Caring about Care: A Meta-Narrative Review of HCI Research on Care | Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems1 savers
• Arthur Chen1 savers
• Noah Baker2 savers
• Friendly Bureau2 savers
• A Website To End All Websites | Henry From Online16 savers
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• DJR | David Jonathan Ross1 savers
• Resurf - A Personal Context Library.1 savers
• kubernetes3d — the server room2 savers
• cargo.site - put your projects on the web7 savers
• ramp.design2 savers
• Axonic4 savers
• Find - Daily Design Competition Platform1 savers
• Ishika — Product & Visual Designer1 savers
• The People I Know3 savers
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• Hand Drawn | Site of Sites1 savers
• Peng Zheng1 savers
• Lab: WebGL, Canvas & Motion Experiments | Edoardo Lunardi1 savers
• Jackie Zhang4 savers
• Jeffrey Li | Design Engineer, App Studio Owner, Content Creator1 savers
• laurent del rey - internet designer3 savers
• Riso Paper Fold1 savers
• Home | Gentle Systems6 savers
• Try These 10 Skills—And Show Off Your Own | Figma Blog1 savers
• Slope2 savers
• Home | Arena Physica1 savers
• Don’t Avoid Romance - The Atlantic1 savers
• "Dear Designer,"2 savers
• Vast – Building Next-Generation Space Infrastructure1 savers
• More Human Than Humans - by Jade - Commonplace1 savers
• DESIGN.md Generator — Design System for AI Agents | design.dev3 savers
• Matthew Jordan’s review of Games: Agency as Art4 savers
• Replicas | Cloud Coding Agents for Engineering Teams1 savers
• There's a place for everyone - by Adam Mastroianni8 savers
• Essential Apps - Nothing Playground1 savers
• Karepango | Human-Inspired Apparel & Accessories | Shop Now1 savers
• Sequence1 savers
• Euphoria (2019) - TV stills and photos1 savers
• ilovecreatives1 savers
• The Raycast Keyboard2 savers
• Raycast16 savers
• everyone an artist - connie surf1 savers
• Rilla | AI Coaching for In-Person Sales1 savers
• Media – Archetype2 savers
• 3% Different with Adam Ho, I.S.P. - by katie - LINER NOTES2 savers
• An Vu2 savers
• Inseam - Production Automation for Consumer Brands2 savers
• Tropical Technologist, Chia Amisola1 savers
• Fresh Face: Chia Amisola — Art & Market2 savers
• Humanity's Last Machine26 savers
• ryos/src/styles/themes/aqua-glass.css at main · ryokun6/ryos · GitHub1 savers
• The Shape of AI | UX Patterns for Artificial Intelligence Design11 savers
• Opacity — The future of software development1 savers
• Publications | My Site1 savers
• Foster City Lagoon Kayak Rentals for Summer Fun1 savers
• SPACE10 – DIA Studio1 savers
• Engram2 savers
• Turn brand guidelines into intelligent systems | brand.ai1 savers
• Dinamo Font Gauntlet2 savers
• Generalist - GEN-0 / Embodied Foundation Models That Scale with Physical Interaction1 savers
• OpenAI.fm3 savers
• wild. creating digital products for brands.4 savers
• Nicole Seah - Interact Residency1 savers
• Syntax6 savers
• Gabriel Valdivia2 savers
• 205TF – Louize1 savers
• Holly Li.1 savers
• Craft, engineered · wild20 savers
• make music on the web. with your people.3 savers
• aiverse • Playbook for designing AI products3 savers
• Maclean Dunkin - Morizuru Co.1 savers
• Tall Ship Tour Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 1 - Sunday, July 5 Tickets | Ticket Tree1 savers
• Counter Forms2 savers
• Home — Dinamo Typefaces7 savers
• Devouring Details16 savers
• ami2 savers
• Some thoughts on human-AI relationships - by Joanne Jang1 savers
• Ice Cream Generator — YEONJUN2 savers
• Piers Cowburn | Engineer, Designer, Artist & Founder1 savers
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highlights — 2193

• As such, the product builders that make decisions on AI memory become stewards of profound intimacy. They make critical choices about what to index, how to compress lived experience into data, what detail to retrieve, and what to forget.

  Nicole Seah - Interact Residency

• "Of course design is about problem solving, but I cannot resist adding something personal." —Wim Crouwel

  Brandon Lal - Product Designer

• i have this chronic habit of intellectualizing my grief because it's so much easier to treat my sadness like an interesting psychological case study than it is to just sit on the floor and feel the stupid, primitive ache of missing someone

  daphne (@coldmemories): "i have this chronic habit of intellectualizing my grief because it's so much easier to treat my sadness like an interesting psychological case study than it is to just sit on the floor and feel the stupid, primitive ache of missing someone "

• Without intervention, she argued, AI will learn to think exclusively through a Western lens, while a fifth of humanity's historical frameworks vanish from our computational future.

  Is there a looming Cultural Omnicide? — LessWrong

• Western, American culture will be in frontier language models’ training data. Most other cultures will not. If nobody steps in, ~90% of mankind's culture could die quite soon.

  Is there a looming Cultural Omnicide? — LessWrong

• From The Lover: “It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.”

  More Life - by Carmen - Altered

• I have found a magical place that makes it foolish to have ever considered not coming, and magical people here who make the thought of leaving even more foolish. I have discovered that what I’d really craved was the sacred, fleeting permission to be perfectly, aimlessly alive.

  returning to stanford | writing

• I knew that I was no legitimate resident in any world of ideas. I knew I couldn’t think. All I knew then was what I couldn’t do. All I knew then was what I wasn’t, and it took me some years to discover what I was.

  Joan Didion: Why I Write ‹ Literary Hub

• I would try to contemplate the Hegelian dialectic and would find myself concentrating instead on a flowering pear tree outside my window and the particular way the petals fell on my floor.

  Joan Didion: Why I Write ‹ Literary Hub

• 此心安处是吾乡 — “Where the heart is at peace, that is home.”

  I Moved Back to a Second-Tier City and Finally Started Living

• Early websites were not a golden age so much as a proof of concept. People respond to immersive brand experiences, and today they yearn for them more than ever.

  The Early Websites of Fashion Brands - by Welcome.jpeg

• No pure managers: Every leader at Coinbase must also be a strong and active individual contributor. Managers should be like player-coaches, getting their hands dirty alongside their teams.

  Brian Armstrong on X: "This is an email I sent earlier today to all employees at Coinbase: Team, Today I’ve made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%. I want to walk you through why we're doing this now, what it means for those affected, and how this positions us for the" / X

• Fewer layers, faster decisions: We are flattening our org structure to 5 layers max below CEO/COO

  Brian Armstrong on X: "This is an email I sent earlier today to all employees at Coinbase: Team, Today I’ve made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%. I want to walk you through why we're doing this now, what it means for those affected, and how this positions us for the" / X

• A Call for New Aesthetics IN CONVERSATION WITH: Parker Ito After Art The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction In Defense of the Poor Image

  "a call for new aesthetics" and the future of art

• pick one thing that gives your business profit margins, and focus on making profit on that one thing, then make everything that is consumed alongside your main thing [complements for the economics majors] commodotized: disney makes marigns on in-park purchases, so they make the hotels, parking, and flights cheaper [commodity prices] casinos make money on gambling, so they make the hotel room, the food, and the drinks cheaper [commodity prices]

  openai burns the boats - by Ethan Ding - mandates

• I feel a pull toward building, toward amassing capital and reshaping things around me to reflect my values — because so much of what governs us feels flawed, misaligned, overdue for change. But I also feel a pull toward living — to seeing the world as it is. To feel what an eclipse looks like. To talk to strangers and feel the small joy of learning something new. Sometimes that’s enough to fill the hunger for experience.

  Pushing 20

• I’ve come to see agency differently. Its greatest gift isn’t control — it’s clarity. It’s the ability to rationalize what you care about, to step willingly into the fire and find a reason to stay there, even when it burns.

  Pushing 20

• talk to people who left this is where the real story usually lives. why did they leave? what was the founder like under stress? did they feel listened to? would they work there again?

  founding designer, explained - by jerry - chain of thoughts

• → type of impact capacity: someone to handle volume craft: someone to raise the bar future leadership: someone to build a function and eventually manage when a founder says “we need a founding designer,” i want to hear which box they are actually trying to fill.

  founding designer, explained - by jerry - chain of thoughts

• i try to ask myself these questions: will this domain still feel interesting after the novelty fades? do i deeply resonate with the problems my users face every day? is this work i will be proud to explain in detail two years from now? does this let me practice end-to-end product thinking, or am i decorating fragments?

  founding designer, explained - by jerry - chain of thoughts

• patterns of dysfunction i watch for role churn without clarity. designers get moved around like a spare part. leaders overriding months of work late, especially if they were not involved earlier. isolated designers. standups shrink. “huddles” happen without you. you become an execution layer. if you are going to be the designer, social and structural isolation is not a minor issue. it is a slow suffocation. and most importantly, not being involved in those conversations means you will not have the context you need to build the best product.

  founding designer, explained - by jerry - chain of thoughts

• questions i ask founders “walk me through a recent hard product decision. how did you make it?” “what did you ship that didn’t work? what did you learn?” “what do you need from me as your first designer?”

  founding designer, explained - by jerry - chain of thoughts

• if you learn to understand that underlying system, you can find ways to use the lower-level details to steer the system in a way that looks incomprehensible to those who only see the more superficial system.

  How to walk through walls - by Henrik Karlsson

• what it actually is, at a deeper level, is bits, code, memory locations, processing units

  How to walk through walls - by Henrik Karlsson

• When I played Zelda, I saw “villages” and “hen.” But they have a hacker mindset, so they know that there aren’t actually any villages and hens.

  How to walk through walls - by Henrik Karlsson

• For me, desire doesn’t strike like lightning, but unfolds like light blooming at the edge of dawn: slow, soft, and impossible to ignore once seen. A kind of eros braided with trust. The wanting is latent, waiting, and then, under the right light, in the right moment, it reveals itself, unmistakably.

  the key to love is understanding - by maja - velvet noise

• friendship is the seedbed of love

  the key to love is understanding - by maja - velvet noise

• Philia, for deep friendship. Eros, for romantic and sexual passion. Agape, for selfless unconditional love. Storge, for familial affection.

  the key to love is understanding - by maja - velvet noise

• The people we love participate in our becoming, as much as they observe us. They reflect parts of us we didn’t know were there. Their curiosity rearranges us and their listening sharpens us. They make us new,

  the key to love is understanding - by maja - velvet noise

• Real love, the kind I dream about, feels like an endless conversation, one that never really stops, just takes pauses to eat or sleep or kiss.

  the key to love is understanding - by maja - velvet noise

• cheese-making class Sonoma

  A weekend in San Francisco - Kaylee George

• Bars: Moongate Lounge, PCH, Mr. Tipples Jazz Club (dim sum + drinks + live jazz), ABV, True Laurel, Tempest

  A weekend in San Francisco - Kaylee George

• Dinner. Overall Date Night Faves: State Bird Provisions, San Ho Won, Four Kings, Rintaro, Cotogna, Niku Steakhouse Chinese: Mister Jiu's, Dumpling Home Korean: Daeho, Han Il Kwan, Brothers KBBQ Thai: Khao Tiew, Saap Ver Damn Good! Thai street food, Khob Khun Thai, Kin Khao, Nari

  A weekend in San Francisco - Kaylee George

• Being able to think materially about material goods, hence critically, gives one some independence from the manipulations of marketing, which typically divert attention from what a thing is to a back-story intimated through associations, the point of which is to exaggerate minor differences between brands.

  Shop Class as Soulcraft

• The craftsman is proud of what he has made, and cherishes it, while the consumer discards things that are perfectly serviceable in his restless pursuit of the new.

  Shop Class as Soulcraft

• Hannah Arendt says. “The reality and reliability of the human world rest primarily on the fact that we are surrounded by things more permanent than the activity by which they were produced, and potentially even more permanent than the lives of their authors.”

  Shop Class as Soulcraft

• The man who works recognizes his own product in the World that has actually been transformed by his work: he recognizes himself in it, he sees in it his own human reality, in it he discovers and reveals to others the objective reality of his humanity, of the originally abstract and purely subjective idea he has of himself.

  Shop Class as Soulcraft

• “virtualism”: a vision of the future in which we somehow take leave of material reality and glide about in a pure information economy

  Shop Class as Soulcraft

• I’d argue that much of what is holding back many commercial applications today is the need for further “unhobbling” of this sort. Indeed, models today are still incredibly hobbled!

  I. From GPT-4 to AGI: Counting the OOMs - SITUATIONAL AWARENESS

• Having diverging goals was the sort of thing that had, in previous relationships of mine, been a source of conflict. But with Johanna, there was rarely such friction. It was more like our conflicting needs were two equations, and our task was to figure out where they intersected; the hardness of the problem wasn’t personal.

  Relationships are coevolutionary loops - by Henrik Karlsson

• Kantian claim that no person is merely a means, the Greek ideal of harmonious excellence across mind and body and character, and the Romantic conviction that we develop through encounter with what resists us.

  You Are Not a Function - by Brendan McCord

• A person is a self-developing being whose worth is not exhausted by function.

  You Are Not a Function - by Brendan McCord

• What is a human being, that education should serve it?

  You Are Not a Function - by Brendan McCord

• In a defeated nation hungry for officers and administrators, he was arguing for formation before function.

  You Are Not a Function - by Brendan McCord

• a human being is more like a tree than a steam engine.

  You Are Not a Function - by Brendan McCord

• “Imagine an AI that doesn’t just flag issues, but understands your system and intent. It’ll make scaling best practices as easy as spell-check.”

  5 Shifts Redefining Design Systems in the AI Era | Figma Blog

• “What many designers and developers can infer just from understanding the brand and the business as a whole, AI doesn’t inherently know.”

  5 Shifts Redefining Design Systems in the AI Era | Figma Blog

• “Design systems open the door for product experiences that scale without losing their soul.”

  5 Shifts Redefining Design Systems in the AI Era | Figma Blog

• Figma’s REST API to automate synchronization between design tokens in code and variables in the Figma library.

  The Making of the Figma Pattern Library | Figma Blog

• The team set up a GitHub Action that runs when variable changes are published, in turn creating a pull request that the team can then review and merge.

  The Making of the Figma Pattern Library | Figma Blog