Imagine you're playing Minecraft: endless digital world, boundless possibilities. Anyone can walk far enough, find their own spot, settle in and carve their niche on the server. Imagine a few enterprising players individually and at random close off the first 1,000 blocks in every direction from spawn and begin a distribution scheme wh...

If you have any insights about data organization, can you answer me this question? I have the intuition that in a world of fuzzy finders, rich data, burgeoning AI tooling, and hash algorithms, just putting everything in one bucket seems to be the best method of organization for digital goods. Am I wrong? The reason we don't use this me...

There are two ways to interpret "minimalism" in the context of design: sparse and succinct minimalism. Sparse Design Sparse minimalist design means using as few elements as possible, and sorting everything with special aesthetic consideration for composition so every element seems deliberate and purposeful. When done well, sparse desig...

I want to begin an exploration into the world of software tools. Specifically, I care about tools built for one specific discipline, kind of like Photoshop was built to facilitate the manipulation of images. I haven't found many books that cover whatever this is called, though. I don't know what I should be looking for. I have an intui...

I recently completed a journal, a cheap $10 Paperage I bought from Amazon last year, and decided to try a few new notebooks with better quality paper. I tried Moleskine, Leuchtturm1917, Jumping Fox, and Rhodia. I will outline my findings below, but let me get to the point: Rhodia vastly outclasses everything else. It is pointless to bu...

Two things I've learned about educational books: 1. You should always read the preface Authors always indicate their impetus for writing the book in the preface, whether directly or subtextually. If an author has a solid idea and a clear path of instruction, they'll demonstrate it here. Ditto if they're only writing for the sheer perce...