Claudio Almeida

Remarkable things can come from humble beginnings. Happy 50th, Apple.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

just in time to create my magic spells

This little illuminated dragon is very happy about Pretext. He's too busy having fun to care about people's "hot takes" on how "it's not that special." (This little dragon also only works on desktop right now but maybe I'll do mobile later) illustrated-manuscript.vercel.app

“No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be….This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.” — Issac Asimov

Imagine resurrecting Steve Jobs and telling him Apple has two products called Apple TV and neither of them are a TV

greig fraser is kinda the ludwig göransson of cinematographers

cinematography by greig fraser

Obsessed with this picture of the Apple team in 1984 (who is this baby next to Steve Jobs???)

@zehf @resend Goats 🐐🐐

one minute to appreciate this beautiful work from the @resend design team

“If you do everything, you will win.” Napoleon Bonaparte

keep struggling when things come too easy, you don’t exercise the brain nor the emotions. ease can feel like progress, but it often skips the reps that actually change you. growth is usually a loop, not a straight line – you take passes. you try, you fail, you reframe. you come back with a slightly better model, a slightly calmer nervous system, a slightly wider range of what you can handle. hardship isn’t the goal. but friction is gold. it shows you where your understanding is thin, where your habits are brittle, where your ego is doing the steering. the struggle is the curriculum. agents are making things easier, and that’s good. but don’t confuse speed with depth. use AI to remove busywork, then spend the saved energy on the parts that still hurt a little: the unclear problem, the uncomfortable conversation, the hard tradeoffs, the things you can’t yet explain in words. instead of putting all your wishes into the black box, actually keep thinking, and seeing things fully. keep the difficulty where it matters. outsource the tedious, keep the meaningful resistance. that’s how we keep learning – and how we stay human while your tools get superhuman.

A hill I'll die on: Current LLM chat interfaces are a regression from GUIs. Actions that used to be links, buttons, or keyboard shortcuts are now things I have to spell out in conversation. Why?

This 3D fish pond mosaic, designed by artist Gary Drostle in 1996, has won numerous art awards

The "Lobster Chair" by Carlo Colombo

Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

The speed of jazz music, 50s-60s, by Francine Winham

IBM Datacentre in Toronto, 1964.

The working space of Steve Jobs

You learn by doing. There’s no other way.