Hey readers,Another bat-shit-bananas crazy week here on planet Earth. Hope you’re all surviving it, and taking care of yourselves.Here’s what I’ve been reading this week; some interesting links to distract you from, gestures broadly, all the things:
There’s never been a better time for “wouldn’t it be cool if…” moments - loving the optimism in Brad Frost’s latest post and vid. We need more optimistic thinking like this.
Been thinking a lot about Ezra Klein’s recent piece. I Saw Something New in San Francisco. About how AI is already influencing us.
Friction Is the Feature - Pablo Stanley’s experiment into an agentic design team with personalities is such an interesting idea.
When Shipping Becomes Too Easy - this is clear; AI makes building software very fast, but deciding what to build and when to ship is as hard as it has ever been.
“When more designers write, it starts to change how design itself gets talked about.” - Elizabeth Goodspeed on why design writing needs designers writing.
Elena Verna’s Confessions of a Millennial in Tech definitely hit home.
Loved this piece by Lauren Loprete on setting personal values.
Christina Wodtke on why Speed Is a Tactic, Not a Virtue.
And finally, I’m smitten over Fran Sans - a font project inspired by old San Francisco train destination signs.
And don’t forget to go outside this week. Put your feet in some sand, if you can.Ben