Suff Syed, former Head of Product Design, announces his shift to a technical role, arguing that design has been commoditized in the AI era while technical depth is now where innovation happens. He argues design has become baseline, while innovation now lies in systems, agents, and orchestration. The

It was the Reality Distortion Field. He could manipulate minds, rewrite doubt into belief, and force the impossible to happen. Here’s how he weaponized storytelling to dominate the world: 🧵

My blogging methodology from ideation to research to writing to editing & finally to publishing.

You can see the impact of LLMs everywhere except the banger blog post statistics

Roy Tang's blog. Programmer, engineer, scientist, critic, gamer, dreamer, and kid-at-heart. Randomly amazed.

A fabulously gay blind author.

writing & speaking & music & theater & cetera

See also: Share your shit, and Don’t wait for tomorrow - Start now, and Please please please please please please share your big dumb beautiful self with the world Humans are easy...

A tutorial on the workflow from Markdown texts to beautiful PDFs /

Over the last few years I’ve gradually given up on Twitter. This has been a long term process because of how deeply my professional and intellectual life was embedded into the service. Not on…

A theory of life about searching for your best.

Why I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save

Love Encyclopedia by Dang Nguyen

I love writing in my notebook. Don't you?

Web based digital tools that work inside your browser.

An alt text selfie is any written self-portrait. This project takes a well-known practice—the selfie—and approaches it through a disability lens.

threads.garden - a small site for making threads on the internet

Can you publish 100 posts on your blog in a year?

Write stories with the world. Every day is a new story. Choose any storyline to continue, and answer the question “what happens next?” Then, see how others continue your story, creating branching storylines from a single prompt. It's like a choose-your-own-adventure book, written by the internet.

Exactly eight years ago, I published “Hello there!” on this website. Since then, I have published hundreds of articles. Persistent writing is excellent for many reasons and is the best thing I have ever done for my personal and professional development.

It’s with a near certainty and small sense of frustration that I say there was something that came before, but memory issues preclude me having any definitive sense of precisely, or even imprecisely, what it was. All I know is that it existed—or, at least,...

When writing in public, there is a common idea that you should make it accessible. This is a left over from mass media.

Welcome to TextMechanic.com! Simple, single task, browser based, text manipulation tools. Popular Tools Add Prefix/Suffix into Line Insert a prefix and/or suffix into the content of each line. Add/Remove Line Breaks Add new line breaks and/or remove existing line breaks within your text’s formatting. Count Characters, Words, Lines Count your text’s characters, words, sentences, lines and word frequency. Delimited Column ... Read More

I’ve been writing at least one blog post a week for the last 10 weeks. This idea of streaks is completely inspired by Matt Webb who would totally be on the cover of Blogging Weekly (if such a magazine existed).

Evergreen notes are written and organized to evolve, contribute, and accumulate over time, across projects. This is an unusual way to think about writing notes: Most people take only transient notes. That’s because these practices aren’t about writing notes; they’re about effectively developing insight: “Better note-taking” misses the point; what matters is “better thinking”. When done well, these notes can be quite valuable: Evergreen note-writing as fundamental unit of knowledge work.

Expresso is a little tool to edit texts and improve your writing style. It will teach you to express yourself through writing more efficiently and help make your texts more readable, precise, and engaging.

Thoughts on building Paper as an indie maker.

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

Presenting my thoughts, stories and ideas to the world

I write about product, sales, marketing, philosophy, and personal epiphanies.