Audience of One: #022 — Molly Mielke
Mechanical Watch — Bartosz Ciechanowski
What color is it
Inside Grand Seiko, Episode One: The Master Craftsman
“it’s not just for that person who is wearing it now, but for the next person that they hand the watch down to.”
10 Years of Autodromo with Bradley Price
The Brink
Read for joy and joy alone. That’s always the answer.
Between-time
Joseph Ray’s ABGT 500 set
Raw Strings in Swift
A reference work of how raw strings work in Swift
On motherhood and leading engineering teams — Tara Feener
How to find focus
So if you feel lost or directionless, instead of making yourself pick a direction while lost at sea, consider drifting for a bit. Try things out. Open the unopened doors. Say yes to a few more things. And then when you feel the winds turning, set your sail to what feels right, indisputably and confidently right. It might take more time, and you might feel behind sometimes, but when you finally set off, you won’t need to look back.
How to do impossible things
The easiest way to do something big may be to never notice just how big it is in the first place, and start chipping away.
I think this is a powerful and motivating problem-solving tactic: assume that a solution exists somewhere out there, and do things that will increase the chances of you stumbling into one such solution in your exploration through the space of possibilities.
Time spent thinking deeply is not wasted time
In this new and different kind of work, I need to spend more time thinking and less time making, and tweak my internal measurement of what feels like productive work. It’s gonna feel weird at first. But the things I make need to be the right things, and the best way to ensure that’s the case is to spend more time thinking about what I put on that queue.
Bet on the sprinters
This is how you build a truly valuable personal network – not just by knowing the people who are already successful, but more importantly, by helping the right people before anybody else will.
I’ve both experienced firsthand and heard from others that following this advice – working with the people who bet on you – is more valuable than simply working at the right company with the right brand name on the right project.
Engaged productivity and the art of discardia
Talking Watches: with Kevin Rose
Meet passkeys — WWDC22
It's time for a security upgrade: Learn how to add support for passkeys to create a quick and easy sign in experience for people, all...
Studying art history led me to my Cartier Santos
I came to view them as expressions of creativity, as artworks that one could wear and live with.
Make space for beauty
Our hearing evolved to hear even the faintest birdsong. And why? Because birdsong is a primary indicator of habitats prosperous to humans.
I would begin, instead, by tapping into our well of feelings to see what makes us feel peaceful, feel sublime, feel alive, to see what fills us with wonder and hope. I would begin, on other words, by tapping into what is beautiful.
切ない (Setsunai): When You Need a Word to Hold Both Sorrow
The word setsunai allows sorrow to mingle with fond remembrance. I find it similar to the experience of speaking my two mistranslated languages, holding two tongues in my one mouth.
Postcard 020 — Proof of Life
Postcard 001 — Walking
Click the image to see it at full resolution. Walking has always been a regular activity in my family. I'm not sure when it started, and it's probably...
Appreciation maximization
I am firmly in the camp of giving people their flowers while they can still smell them.
Van’s implementation of Combine on Swift concurrency (and without protocols (!))
Contribute to CSCIX65G/FreeCombine development by creating an account on GitHub.
Facing cringey reasons
Sometimes just knowing your cringey reasons is half the battle, other times it’s the whole battle, or only one tenth. But the humility in facing them is worth the pain. Coming up from the depths to cringe, then troubleshoot, isn’t avoidant — it’s responsible.
safety
The best thing you can do for the people you care about is to try to help them meet their needs.
The Browser Company wants you to build your own internet home
We spoke to three of the startup's product designers about how Arc can be the future of web browsing.
Optimizing for Feelings
On seeking meaning beyond metrics
certainty
a brain dressed as a heart will never beat the same way, no matter how hard it thinks about it. Your brain might be able to whip up a five-page single-spaced essay outlining exactly what you want and need in extensive detail, but your heart will always have the last word (and trust me, they will fit on a post-it). Certainty means you’re moving at the speed of trust — a personal pace that ultimately has no record to beat or even road to follow.
Second-degree dinners
Find out about second-degree dinners: A great way to meet new people in your city and make meaningful connections.