(((Daniel Schwartz))) 🇺🇸

@bandiaditya @noondesign Get Noon!

I’m thrilled to announce we’ve raised $44M to build a new home for product design. Meet @noondesign. No workflow is more broken and fragmented in 2026 than the product designers’. The very same people who care most about building software don’t have software purpose built for them. @kushagrasinha7 and I have lived this problem first hand as designers ourselves. That’s why we built Noon. The first product design tool that works entirely on your product code, so you can design not only how a product looks, but also how it works. With AI at its core that works in seconds, not minutes. For the first time, you can create, iterate, build, test and ship. All in one canvas. No translations or roundtrips to the codebase and back. Comment “Get Noon” and we’ll get you on the list for early access.

Imagine starting with a block of stone and ending with this…

A bit of Japanese theater… it’s pretty cool to watch

The Passover Seder (1925) by Marc Chagall, one of the 20th century’s most famous and vibrant painters.

Truth Matters ‼️ Former Associate Press Journalist blows the whistle on AP..

From the mosaic traditions of Rome and the Ottoman Empire to modern hands… This tiny iridescent masterpiece is art at its finest.

every school should teach how Richard Branson started an airline with no money: to launch a transatlantic service, you need a Boeing 747... that's hundreds of millions of dollars. Branson started Virgin Atlantic with nothing. here’s what he did: he called Boeing's main switchboard and asked if they had a 747 sitting around that nobody was using. they hung up on him. he kept calling. eventually someone transferred him to the head of commercial sales to "get rid of him properly". head of commercial sales: "in every country, we have one customer. in the UK, it's British Airways. there's nothing to talk about." Branson's reply: "just humour me. do you have an old 747 lying around?" "...actually, yeah, we do." "what would you lease it for?" "about $200-300k a month." Branson convinced them to lease him that 747 because it was sat there doing nothing. then he structured the whole thing so he never needed to invest cash upfront: > customers buy tickets months before the flight > fuel gets paid 30 days after the plane lands > lease payments in arrears if you can start an airline with no money, you can start anything with no money. you just have to replace capital with creative thinking. & that's what we should be teaching our kids.

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@Bouazizalex Glad to hear and that would be great! He can message me here danielschwartz.com/contact.php or please DM!

We're hiring: Ghostbuster position open. Join Deel's version of DOGE, our strongest operational team. $200k+/year - remote. Over 7 years, Deel scaled to 7,000+ people across 100+ countries. Every company this size accumulates ghosts: - A process installed by someone who left 2 years ago - A tool slowing everyone down that nobody wants to call out - A decision from 2022 that no one revisited Ghostbusters find broken things and fix them. Own the outcome end to end. You'll partner directly with our COO & myself on the highest-priority operational and strategic initiatives at the company. No busywork. No micromanagement. Just the objective. What it takes: - Builder mentality. You'll get resources, but you'd crush it without them - First-principles thinker. You walk into any department and ask, "Why does this even exist?" - Financially sharp. Business-minded. Operationally elite - AI-native. You help every team rethink how they work, every single week - Self-directed. We give you the mission, not the playbook This is the strongest operational team at Deel. Every person on it is a force. If that's you: jobs.ashbyhq.com/deel/b168b5dd-…

@Bouazizalex Glad to hear and that would be great! He can message me here or danielschwartz.com/contact.php or linkedIn.com/in/danielone or please DM!

@danielone 100% we have an equivalent in our design org! Happy to intro you

Atlassian uses a simple framework that most design teams should steal. They call it Good/Better/Best. When exploring a feature, designers create three versions: • Good: Ships under tight constraints. Solves the problem but the UX has friction. • Better: Smoother experience. Some improvements but not ideal. • Best: The optimal flow. No unnecessary steps. What you'd build with unlimited time. The framework does two things: Makes scope decisions explicit. When timelines shrink or resources get tight, teams can see exactly what level they're shipping and what they're sacrificing. No hidden compromises. Gives designers leverage to push back. If "good" creates terrible UX, they can show why "better" is worth the extra time. Instead of presenting one perfect solution, Atlassian designers show three levels and let constraints decide. Everyone on the team understands the trade-offs before committing.

Major cheat code for life: Increase your recovery speed. You will get rejected. You will lose money. You will embarrass yourself. The goal isn't to avoid the fall. It's to shorten the time between the fall and the reset. The ultimate life hack is the ability to quickly reset and recover. From a poor decision. From a bad interaction. From a missed workout. From a bad day. You can start over whenever you want. You can't always control what happened, but you can control how long you carry it. Fast recovery compounds.

Computer animation by hand in the 1990s was no joke. This is what a real pioneer looks like.

The making of iconic HBO’s 1982 intro and the final result is still mind-blowing.

The guy who helped build React, the most popular workaround for the browser's layout engine, just said the workaround isn't sufficient and built the replacement himself. Cheng Lou's resume is the context that makes this announcement hit different. He worked on React at Facebook. Created ReasonML and ReScript. Built Messenger's frontend. Now runs Midjourney's entire UI stack on Bun. Every single role was a fight against the same enemy: the browser's rendering pipeline. Here's why this matters beyond the engineering flex. The web was built to render documents. Static HTML, flowing text, pages you scroll through. CSS layout was designed for that world. Then we started building applications inside the document renderer: spreadsheets, design tools, messaging apps, AI chat interfaces. Every one of those applications has to ask the browser permission to know how big text is. That question triggers reflow. Reflow locks the main thread. At 60fps you get 16 milliseconds per frame. Spend those milliseconds on layout recalculation and the user sees jank. The industry's answer for the last decade has been to work around the problem. Virtual DOM (React) batches the writes. CSS containment limits the blast radius. content-visibility skips offscreen layout. FastDOM separates reads from writes. Every solution accepts that the browser owns text measurement and tries to call it less often. Cheng Lou's answer: stop calling it at all. Measure text in pure TypeScript. Skip the DOM. Skip CSS. Skip reflow entirely. Zero layout passes. The performance improvement, per his demo, is categorical. 0.05ms versus 30ms. Zero reflows versus five hundred. The person who understands the browser rendering pipeline better than almost anyone alive just built the tool that makes part of it unnecessary. That tells you where application-grade UI is heading.

Folding croissants with chocolate filling.

Two SF brands. Same pitch: "Luxury basics without the markup." One is fighting for survival. The other just hit a $10B valuation. The tale of Everlane vs. Quince is a masterclass in Brand vs. Machine. Everlane Launched in 2012 with "Radical Transparency." It was a vibe. It worked, until it didn’t. Revenue stalled at ~$170M. Sales have dropped for 24 months. Tried "Clean Luxury" rebrands and celeb campaigns, but the customer moved on. Hunting for a lifeline to keep the lights on. Quince Launched in 2018 with a different engine: Manufacturer-to-Consumer (M2C). They don’t hold inventory. Factories hold it until you click "buy." A massive engineering team in Bangalore uses AI to forecast demand down to the SKU and color. $50 cashmere + zero middleman = $1B+ revenue in 2025. Everlane built a story. Stories are powerful, but they’re fragile. When the mood shifts, the business cracks. Quince built a structural cost advantage. Their edge compounds every year as data improves and risk stays upstream.

This one hits hard today… cherish your loved ones.❤️