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How will people buy homes in the future? We don’t have that picture yet, but let’s make sure it has our fingerprints all over it. [6/6]
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Why is flat design “over”? I agree with @bchesky, and I’ll add it’s a want for what’s lacking. I keep coming back to this article from 1927. Just like people then craved more beauty and artistic detail in reaction to decades of mass-produced utility, we are here again. What Airbnb shipped isn’t just 3D, it shows the loving care of the maker behind every fraction of a pixel. When it’s easy to produce things in mass quantity, people crave craft that shows care. The AI era is our new industrial era and the same rules apply.
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Founder Mode: paulgraham.com/foundermode.h…
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Coppola upholding tradition (going to Cannes and dropping one of the hardest quotes of all time)
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Steve wouldn't have shipped that ad. It would have pained him too much to watch.
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Let yourself occasionally get a little screwed in exchange for not having to live with your guard up all the time. It’s worth it.
Qué tipo de contenido os gustaría que trajera a esta plataforma? – at Dubai, United Arab Emirates
40%Diseño
20%Emprendimiento
40%Vivir y trabajar en Dubai
0%I don’t speak Spanish
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@patrickc on Stripe:
“My intuition is that more of Stripe success than one would think is down to the fact that people like beautiful things and for rational reasons.
Because, what does a beautiful thing tell you? It tells you the person who made it really cared, and you can observe some superficial details, but probably they didn’t only care about those and did everything in else in slapdash way.
So, if you care about the infrastructure being holistically good, indexing on the superficial characteristics is not an irrational thing to do.“
Couldn't have said better and proud to have Patrick as an investor in @linear.
We shouldn't accept poorly made things and that lack beauty.
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The Golden Horse Film Festival 2021.
Late to the game but this is dope.
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Airbnb has great ideas but rarely launches them.
They want "permission to build".
Here is what it means, and why it works so well ↓
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Brand is not about polished websites or color palettes. Brand is about choosing what you value, stand for and/or strive for. Then building the company, product, messaging and website with those ideas.
Otherwise it's window dressing or chasing trends and it won't feel right.
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The year is 2023. A US fintech startup product manager, on a 3-hour layover at Narita airport, drops by a little convenience store to buy a coffee. As he's about to check out, he hears the cashier muttering, softly and slightly ominously:
"Forty-eight, forty-eight, forty-eight..."
He glances at a sign posted next to the checkout counter. "Forty-eight different payments methods?? Can you believe this?? This is a huge opportunity ripe for the taking!! It's about time global payments was consolidated!!" Inspired, he frantically pings his team on his flight home, and they rush to build The One Payments System To Rule Them All.
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Two years pass. The year is 2025. Many of the hairs on our young PM's head have grayed, and our once promising fintech startup is no more. But the little convenience store in the Narita airport is still here, almost exactly unchanged from two years ago. The only thing that's different is that, if you listen carefully, you can hear the cashier muttering, softly and slightly ominously:
"Forty-nine, forty-nine, forty-nine..."
