Bushra Farooqui 📖 🕯️

This is going to be my wallpaper “...take the trouble to do all that, and you do it carefully, then it may begin to have the quality which has no name.”

@lukeburgis Adorable! Congratulations to you and the family, Luke!

Welcome to the world Una Pauline Perpetua Burgis

“…the real has never been more precious, refreshing, special, rare.”

@nabeelqu ^Agreed. One tweak is that the creative process may be publicized after-the-fact, but I also like the Jensen Huang way of seeing things - the novelty isn't the software per se, but that you're creating the market

Build in public is over for software projects, it’s too easy to copy things now. The new meta is build in secret until you’re huge and impossible to dislodge.

products that possess an “aesthetic grace” reflected in the architecture of information flows that govern how they work:

Ooof, I am so sorry to hear how you’ve been feeling. What are you doing to prioritize replenishing your energy on a daily basis? One of my favorite household management-meets-cleaning books has the most wonderful definition of rest / protected time, that’s part of how they organize their family:

Am I just a monster? It's been 4 years since I became a father and I'm beginning to fear for my soul. The truth is I just don't like being around kids for very long. Historically, this is not uncommon among fathers, but today it feels almost illegal. It's causing me a lot of confusion and anguish. The ideal amount of time I would like to spend playing with my kids is probably about 70-140 minutes a week—roughly ten minutes each day, maybe 2x/day, taking breaks from work. My feelings of love toward them are perfectly strong, but if I have to watch them or entertain them for more than about 10 minutes my blood starts to boil. I just want to be working, or accomplishing something. I try to be grateful, but it doesn't work. It's 9 AM this morning, Saturday, January 3. It's a sunny, warm day here in Austin, and my four-year-old son is begging me to play catch in the street. I was drinking coffee, still waking up, so I didn’t really feel like it, but at this age his desire to play is insatiable. He begged and begged, so I conceded, and with a smile. I have no problem being a kind and loving father, the problem is only that I do not enjoy it. It's not that I'm trying to maximize my personal pleasure; it just seems wrong that I experience so little delight when my dad friends all claim to experience so much. It was beautiful. We live on a picturesque, tree-lined block. I am even relatively relaxed from the holiday rest. Playing catch with your son is supposed to be an iconic, peak experience. Yet for every single minute, on the inside, I just don't want to be there. I want to be drinking my coffee in peace. Then I feel guilty and absurdly ungrateful, and ashamed, when we're done. I know that when he is a teenager, I'll long to have these days back. I have all of this perspective rationally, and I've been very patient and steadfast trying to digest it, but nothing fixes me emotionally. Am I a terrible person? Or is my feeling within a certain range of historically normal and it's modern parenting norms that are off? Whether it's my fault or not, I don't even care, I just want to figure this out. Something is wrong and I no longer have the excuse of being new to this.

It's strange to think that the people who made these watches never knew just what a good job they did. They knew they did the best they could, but you can never know how well something you made is going to work 80 years from now.

@paulg This is so you, @bilalfarooqui <3

A friend told me that now that they've had a child, her husband can't bear to watch movies in which bad things happen to kids. Same here. That was one of the most surprising things about having children. You're not just protective of your own children, but children in general.

@tasshinfogleman <3

@startuployalist oh i love this, tysm for sharing ❤️

One of the gentlest pieces of writing by Derek Sivers that I keep returning to, "Doors and windows and what’s real": sive.rs/dw

@realtimeai The compression is very artful

@startuployalist The compression though.

lifelong context windows make me so sentimental now

@sharifshameem Congratulations, Sharif!

I've joined OpenAI! there are a few rare inflection points throughout history in which the choices we make for how we interact with computers can dictate the next 50+ years of the field (think of the desktop computing metaphor from Xerox PARC in the 70's). i'm more excited than ever to try to push for a future where intelligent models will augment us both intellectually and creatively, a sort of Man-Computer Symbiosis.

Aesthetic integrity and knowledge of your audience - from a 1992 manual on Macintosh’s Human Interface Guidelines dn721903.ca.archive.org/0/items/apple-…

@tasshinfogleman Very much echoing that - it was such a joy to meet you, Tasshin! 🤍

@startuployalist so glad we finally met in person in 2025 Bushra ❤️

Heartfelt gratitude to 2025, and excited for 2026! 🤍

@nwilliams030 This is beautiful!

General resolutions I started in 2024, new additions for this year in italics. 🤍

creating a corner of the world that adores and lavishes care on non-commercial interests of all kinds

@vixsheikh Happy New Years to you too, Waqas!

@startuployalist HNY!

intimate societies organized around a “creative attention” that crosses the chasm of a galaxy of context —

@zaid We have a Ray Dalio in the making

“1 Park Avenue was completed in 1928, just before the crash. It was built as the headquarters for Union Carbide, a serious industrial company that wanted to project reliability, ethics, permanence. The elevator doors are part of that message. Each set is labeled with a virtue — Fidelity, Sincerity, Integrity, Prudence, Industry. Not randomly. These were the traits a company wanted its workers, partners and investors to associate with the firm. In the late 1920s, character was branding. Design-wise, this is classic late Art Deco moving toward American corporate Deco: •heavy bronze instead of flash •repeating crests and seals •symmetry that feels almost judicial •ornament that suggests order, not speed Unlike the Chrysler Building’s celebration of motion and glamour, 1 Park Avenue leaned into trust and restraint. You can feel it. The doors don’t invite you in. They test you a little. There’s also a subtle behavioral trick here. Elevators were still psychologically strange spaces. Putting moral words at eye level wasn’t just decorative — it calmed people. It suggested that what powered this building wasn’t just cables and motors, but values.”