Welcome to my Personal Archive

" You can't compete with someone who is having fun " - Tiago Forte

Thu, May 14

It's a different kind of feeling when it works well in prod the same way as in localhost

Wed, May 13

Lego increasing their age limit to 4-100 for Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday melted my heart

Tue, May 12

Time is extremely valuable and I chose to waste it

Mon, May 11

The 'I've heard it somewhere' someone says is probably from a reel. Lol

Sun, May 10

When I started my career and at started working on an extensive product feature revamp, I was experimenting and creating wild stuff. My then product manager used to say keep up this cursioty and drive cos when you get to know about all the technical stuff, frameworks etc. as you move on in your career this helps you to keep on experimenting on constraints and I have always kept that in my mind given anything I work on.

Sat, May 9

Casey Neistat was the OG Builder before the term builder even existed

Fri, May 8

Listened to Dan Hollick say how he builds mini AI Tools to make all his illustrations and diagrams and that they are useful only for that very specific thing and are not usable to anything else. The cost of building a mini tool to relieve you from a manual task is so low and also preserves the IKEA effect of you doing it yourself, the joy of building stuff. He gave an example of how back in the day AT&T Bell Labs used to oil a teletypewriter machine the engineers built an oil dropper which only dispenses 15 drops so there won't be any spillage. There is 0 usecases for that dropper anywhere else. That is how AI can be shaped into aiding us make stuff and support us. I feel like we mis-interpret and go all-in asking 'do it' instead it should be acting like a C3PO or an R2D2 to you.

Thu, May 7

" Some ideas may resonate, others may not. A few may awaken an inner knowing you forgot you had. Use what's helpful. Let go of the rest. " - Rick Rubin

Thu, May 7

Practice what you preach, that's something I greatly feel about everything and builds the most trust. Be it a career coach, financial advisor anyone for that matter, they don't have to be the best at it but they should've just put themselves into it, failed and that's enough trust building imo

Tue, May 5

" Don't shrink the vision to fit the doubts " - Benji Taylor

Tue, May 5

I never knew design to code can be pixel perfect until I tried Paper. Awesome stuff.

Sun, May 3

As a designer, it took me 2yrs to understand that code was the final medium.

Sat, May 2

You can outsource your thinking but not your understanding if you think about it goes hard on a lot of layers.

Fri, May 1

As a designer mymind is by far the best tool I could use. It helps a lot to go and take a look at all the inspirations I saved. I feel it's similar to how certain designers take their inspiration when burned out by going through beautifully designed books in their library and that ticks a idea.

Thu, Apr 30

Black on yellow gives the most contrast and is the reason why most warning signs follow that. Saw a Zoho testimonial banner in banglore metro and loved how much that contrast was making me digest the information better. BTW I’m not much of a fan of zoho design.

Thu, Apr 30

I'm a doomscroller because I want to keep up with the latest doom.

Thu, Apr 30

I really feel that software built by people to solve their own problems first has the biggest impact. You gotta be always the first user.

Wed, Apr 29

How about a calculator which says use your brain when it’s a simple calculation. XD

Tue, Apr 28