A lightweight way to add ambient social cohesion for remote teams.| Steph Ango
My personal Obsidian vault template. A bottom-up approach to note-taking and organizing things I am interested in.| Steph Ango
A self-guaranteeing promise does not require you to trust anyone. You can verify it yourself.| Steph Ango
Systems want to grow and grow, but without pruning, they collapse. Slowly, then spectacularly.| Steph Ango
Love is magic, it defies explanation. To the most rational and logical among us, this may be confusing. Its elusiveness is its significance. Love isn’t an illusion to be broken, but a miracle to bask in. Not everything needs to be understood to be appreciated. You are the audience, and the magician.| Steph Ango
The edge of a sheet of paper slices through the tip of your finger and blood begins to flow from the wound. This injury, as small as it may be, must be repaired. Blood cells rush to the site, clotting, scabbing, healing. You never asked for it, but a few days later your finger is as good as new.| Steph Ango
As a child, you touched something hot, and it burned you. That pain gave you a piece of information: be careful touching hot things.| Steph Ango
Quality software is like quality food from the farmer’s market. A jar of handmade organic jam is not the same as mass-produced corn syrup-laden jam from the ...| Steph Ango
Oscar Wilde once said:| Steph Ango
There is a parasite, I see it everywhere. It consumes your health and wealth. It preys on ignorance and is easy to catch. It’s so common you may not even notice you have it.| Steph Ango
There is a feeling I search for: being in good hands. It is the feeling I look to give and the feeling I look to receive.| Steph Ango
How many individual electric motors are part of your daily life? Count your electric toothbrush, air conditioner, blow dryer, refrigerator, washing machine. Count the tiny motors that control the focus and zoom of your phone camera.| Steph Ango
There’s a French expression I like:| Steph Ango
For the past seven decades, computers have been designed to enhance what your brain can do — think and remember. New kinds of computers will enhance what your senses can do — see, hear, touch, smell, taste.| Steph Ango
One of my first industrial design jobs was working on a headset that never shipped, for a now defunct startup. It used two micro-OLED displays similar to the ones in Apple’s Vision Pro, but with clear, see-through optics reflected into the eye through a kind of one-way mirror lenses (beam-splitters).| Steph Ango
Every week I create a weekly note, and write my to-dos for the week. I may add more items to it during the week.| Steph Ango
Tools convert something you can do into something you want to do. A pencil converts hand movements (what you can do) into markings on paper (what you want to do) with the purpose of conveying an idea.| Steph Ango
Specialization is too heavily encouraged as a career path.| Steph Ango
The cover of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has two simple words of advice for intergalactic travelers:| Steph Ango
Evergreen notes allow you to think about complex ideas by building them up from smaller composable ideas.| Steph Ango
Emerging generative AI art tools such as Stable Diffusion, DALL-E and Midjourney have given rise to a new artform. I call it synthography.| Steph Ango
Every year I ask myself 40 questions that help me make sense of what happened over the past twelve months. I love working through that exercise and discussing it with friends and family who do it too.| Steph Ango
Today is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. To celebrate I brought together 30 ecommerce companies to launch slashpackaging.org, a movement to make packaging information accessible to all. I hope you will join too.| Steph Ango
How many days have you been alive?| Steph Ango
For years I’ve had a fascination with the idea of digital paper. It’s a concept that people have been working towards since the dawn of computing. Before the mouse was invented there was the aptly-named Stylator and the RAND Tablet.| Steph Ango
When did the word “compromise” become vilified?| Steph Ango
Methodologies for problem-solving are fairly well established. The scientific method is perhaps the best problem-solving template we have. However, finding good problems to solve is a different skill altogether, one that we don’t teach.| Steph Ango
When trying to jumpstart a new habit, the only thing that matters is making consistent progress.| Steph Ango
I saw a wonderful exhibit of Ishiuchi Miyako’s photography. Her series “Scars” particularly struck me.| Steph Ango
There’s a saying you may have heard called Hanlon’s razor:| Steph Ango
When Google Maps first came out, it blew me away. It still seems like one of the most magical technologies we have today.| Steph Ango
The term “vanilla” is often used to describe something ordinary, plain, or standard. In my book, there’s nothing less vanilla than vanilla.| Steph Ango
A professor of mine used to often quote Bob Dylan:| Steph Ango
A world where knowledge is captured and categorized, interpreted by the masses almost instantaneously digested, regurgitated, masticated, ruminated.| Steph Ango
In the near future, transforming text over an entire document will become as commonplace as filtering images.| Steph Ango
If you want to build principled software, avoid becoming VCware. Stay user-supported. It is now possible for tiny teams to build principled software that mil...| Steph Ango
Only optimists can create a great future. One day, I decided to become an optimist and life became much more fun.| Steph Ango
Whenever I buy things I try to prioritize cost per use. Sometimes I consider other priorities such as cost per smile, cost per thrill, cost per externality, ...| Steph Ango
If you want to progress faster, write concise explanations. Explain ideas in simple terms, strongly and clearly, so that they can be rebutted, remixed, rewor...| Steph Ango
If you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you...| Steph Ango
Every year I ask myself these 40 questions. I’ve shared this list with my family and closest friends, and always enjoy discussing answers as we reflect on th...| Steph Ango
