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  • Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs

    “Great compositions take you on a journey. Your eyes are guided around the image on a specific path, leading to where the photographer wants to take you.” If there was ever a survey about people who don’t bother their iPhone cameras much, I would probably make in top ten. I do like to read good…

  • Compatibility is an achievement of love; it must not be its precondition.—Alain De Botton

  • We are anecdotal buyers. We buy stories more than we buy features. The hard part is that the story has to be different from what we already know. It’s easy to give people what they want (a list of features they have in mind) than it is to teach them what they need (a story…

  • The hard part of being a big fish in a little pond isn’t about being the right fish. It’s about finding the right pond. — Seth Godin

  • A better Uber

    Uber has a massive problem at hand i.e. harrassment. But the way they handled the transportation authorities around the world is not a bug but a feature. https://soundcloud.com/exponentfm/episode-106-to-be-an-outlaw

  • It’s wonderful to be able to imagine a world that doesn’t exist as yet. It’s equally dangerous to start living in that. Irony of building a great business is that you have to be great at first and remarkably good at the second. Tip: Know your strength. And hire people for the other.

  • Pay attention to what you are paying attention to. via Austin Kleon

  • On Kickstarter, Handcrafted Sleeves and Mac Pads

    Speaking of marrying good design with ambitious plans, we are aiming big with this. Though it might seem like another fancy piece of hardware. But trust me, your help can go a long way in changing the lives of many people. People who are super talented and people who the world needs more of.

  • Designing for health care

    “From the outside, the healthcare industry seems to be a potentially messy and unappealing tangle of insurers, hospitals, laws, regulations, bureaucracy, and antiquated technology systems. It’s not surprising that many designers shy away from the work because of regulations or slow moving institutions with little appetite for change.” Couldn’t agree with this more. Design needs…

  • Why, What and How. Answer them in exact same order. If messed up, start over. It’s OK if that feels scary.