Andrew Tam

on the atlas — 35

• How to Do Great Work67 savers
• Two kinds of introspection - by Henrik Karlsson11 savers
• How to Work Hard18 savers
• Think more about what to focus on - by Henrik Karlsson41 savers
• a guide to locking in for people exactly like me - by kel1 savers
• Am I Crazy to Leave a Stable UX Job to Travel the World? : r/UXDesign1 savers
• Das Gesamtkunstwerk1 savers
• Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process64 savers
• Steve Jobs' Calculator — jordan1 savers
• Stumbling Your Way to Extraordinary1 savers
• Objects of Our Life | Steve Jobs Archive1 savers
• When To Do What You Love33 savers
• My Personal Story of Becoming a Designer - DESK Magazine1 savers
• The Art of Decision-Making | The New Yorker3 savers
• Taste is Eating Silicon Valley. - by Anu Atluru13 savers
• The Art of Literature/On Thinking for Oneself - Wikisource, the free online library2 savers
• Mixing Isn't What You Think1 savers
• The Meaning of Life Is Absurd4 savers
• on sticking with it - by Ava - bookbear express1 savers
• the weight of dreams - by Spencer Chang10 savers
• how to change your life, part 2: agnes callard's aspiration4 savers
• Desire machine - by Siddharth - cybermonk1 savers
• how to change your life, part 1: l.a. paul's transformative experience2 savers
• The story of me leaving LA and deciding to move to New York1 savers
• U.S. gold medal cyclist Kristen Faulkner quit venture capital career to compete in the Olympics1 savers
• Haters2 savers
• How the sounds of a calculator ended up on Sublime's website1 savers
• a stupid bravery - by visakan veerasamy2 savers
• Config, Waymo, and Tents - by Reggie James1 savers
• Good design is no longer good enough - by Elan Miller1 savers
• No More Boring Apps | !Boring3 savers
• confidence - by Ava - bookbear express1 savers
• The builder's yardstick: your life as the measure of all things1 savers
• So you wanna de-bog yourself - by Adam Mastroianni24 savers
• The Marginalian – Marginalia on our search for meaning.16 savers

highlights — 4

• He was developing his eye, absorbing into his bones the lesson that good design is not mere decoration or ornament, but a paring away to help an object reveal its essence and, ultimately, evoke an emotional connection with its user.

  Objects of Our Life | Steve Jobs Archive

• I basically navigate the world by vibes, smelling out opportunity, people, places where I’m wanted.

  The story of me leaving LA and deciding to move to New York

• My friend said this about her work, which is very different (she’s running a company): I just had to accept that my life was going to be difficult for a long time. There was something comforting about that thought for me.

  making things is hard - by Ava - bookbear express

• Fear tends to emerge when you compare yourself to a past version of you. Even if that comparison is a positive one (meaning you’re so happy to be you vs. who you once were), that will breed fear because you are now so attached to the current version of you. And on the flip side, longing to be the past version of yourself will make you fear your present condition, which means that contentment will always evade you.

  Fear Is a Framing Problem