Chad Thompson

we replaced daydreaming with doomscrolling and have the audacity to wonder why things got weird

CREATIVITY IS JUST REPS “You either have it or you don’t.” I’ve heard this from plenty of creative professionals. The idea is that some people are gifted, and others are just bumbling goofballs who can’t draw a stick figure. I completely disagree. As a student, I rarely got A’s in drawing classes. For whatever reason, I was never the star art student. Now, I draw for a living. Sure, some people have a stronger natural knack. It’s harder for me to dunk a basketball than LeBron James. He’s King James—I’m Short King Josh. But if you spent 40 hours a week doing anything, you would see massive improvement over time. Creativity is surprisingly simple. It’s just an idea and its execution. The more you practice executing—in this case, drawing—the better your results.

The Design System era is dead. Top-down design is forever broken. Having a consistent aesthetic may have been nice in the past, but today there are too many players and too many creative possibilities to dictate a single aesthetic for the entire world. The future belongs to those who embrace the broad multitude of creative expression rather than those attempting to tame it.

SaaS is dead. It's over. I just cancelled my free Gmail subscription and vibe coded my own. There is no spam filtering, no support for attachments, and the storage costs me $150/mo, but worth it. This is the future.

Zuck shared a playlist of songs he played on repeat while building Facebook in 2004. It's so funny that these are the five songs are the part of Facebook's dna

By age 18, you’ve already spent ~90% of your in-person time with your parents. By 30, it’s closer to 95%.