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Nick Punt 📚

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Design @ReadWithMargins. We need wiser mediums and calmer tech.

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Nick Punt 📚@nickpunt·
Think social media is a bit out of control? It might be because there's no way to de-escalate conflict, which is an essential part of functional human societies. Here's my proposal for one way to do so, allowing people to admit their mistakes on @twitter. nickpunt.com/blog/deescalat…
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Tobias Renström
Tobias Renström@tbsrnstrm·
Alpha feedback's been a firehose these past couple of months, and the quality's blown me away. Wrapping it up with tons of ideas. Also, using Spatial to sift through, make sense and prioritize it all has really been a treat.
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Nick Punt 📚@nickpunt·
@zoink I'm concerned about Figma's viability in the age of AI if Figma still can't get basics like nested components, fonts, memory use, & colors right. These core/deep use cases are moats you should have been building. Avoiding the hard stuff has left Figma vulnerable to being cloned.
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Nick Punt 📚@nickpunt·
@zoink Two issues I ran into today when attempting to use this for production work 1. it doesn't work with custom fonts, which any good app uses 2. Figma's stuck on 8-bit color, so I'm stuck with banded grays. Apple ecosystem has been 10-bit P3 for years now
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Dylan Field
Dylan Field@zoink·
Agents, meet the Figma canvas
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Nick Punt 📚@nickpunt·
@FU_joehudson This is why some of the advice around ‘do what you love’ I find terribly misguided, as though we are static and incapable of change. We should strive to find something worth doing and then ‘do until you love’. Falling in love is life giving and it’s a skill in its own right.
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Joe Hudson
Joe Hudson@FU_joehudson·
The older I get, the more I'm convinced that enjoyment is one of the most underrated skills. If it costs a gallon of energy to move a mile, it doesn't matter how fast you go. You're not efficient. The person who finishes the day energized will always outpace the one finishing depleted.
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Austin Walker 🛴
Austin Walker 🛴@austinxwalker·
a few years ago i got covid and never recovered. i went from exercising every day to completely bedbound. lost 40lbs. in and out of hospitals for over 2 years. saw 20+ doctors. bloodwork came back normal. "you're probably just stressed from being a founder."
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Karri Saarinen
Karri Saarinen@karrisaarinen·
@holyn “Move fast and break things leaves no room for beauty.” ❤️ I find this the most hilarious aspects of the taste discourse. Silicon Valley spends all its time building, working and not enjoying or appreciating good works, not reflecting why they are good. Always moving.
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Nick Punt 📚@nickpunt·
@s8mb This is pretty imprecisely argued. I can't tell what meaningful distinctions you perceive between any internet services. You potentially have an interesting angle on kids autonomy, but dropping 'Tiktok is more like books than alcohol' w/o evidence is not a good take
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Sam Bowman
Sam Bowman@s8mb·
Banning teenagers from social media is a bad idea, I argue today in the Washington Post. It's less like banning them from alcohol or tobacco, as some advocates say, and more like banning them from books or movies – there are lots of books I don't want my kids reading before they're old enough, but to ban them entirely would be insanity. The evidence that social media and the internet are bad for kids is strikingly weak, bordering on nonexistent, considering the strength of the claims that are being made. That doesn't mean there's nothing to worry about – the evidence may change – but it leans in favour of pluralism via parental choice. For many bright kids, the internet can be a lifeline to interests and people they won't get access to at school. Imagine, for example, trying to follow developments in AI without access to Twitter. For even more of them, the internet is a remedy for the punishing boredom of being a teenager. If we've misdiagnosed why teens are unhappy – and, for example, school is the big cause rather than the internet – we could make things worse. I am not a believer in "anything goes" when it comes to under-16s. But the answer is to strengthen parental controls, including with more regulation if necessary, not to impose a single prohibition on all teens and families. Gift link below. wapo.st/3OcSzYf
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Boze Herrington (the Library Owl) 😴🧙‍♀️
Boze Herrington (the Library Owl) 😴🧙‍♀️@SketchesbyBoze·
I find it bleak how many people seem to have given up on having any kind of intellectual life. Depression is rampant because we’ve abandoned books & hobbies in favor of joyless amusements. The single most attractive thing a person can do is read often & delight in learning.
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SwiftOnSecurity@SwiftOnSecurity·
@lymanstoneky In recent chats I've had heard horror stories people getting whacked in their late 30s. I'm thinking of pushing it up.... apparently not the most pleasant vaccine though...
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Nick Punt 📚@nickpunt·
Anyway this got me to read OAI's ads principles which I think are worth a read & I don't think a dystopic AI ad future is anywhere near (I'm a skeptic not a cynic). The question I care about is: what can we do now to ensure quality futures? openai.com/index/our-appr…
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Nick Punt 📚@nickpunt·
Ads as a biz incentive structure have very different effects based on use case. Question is what world is OAI stepping into: Search -> transaction -> self limiting Media consumption -> entertainment -> addiction AI companionship -> trust-laden inquiry -> ???
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Nick Punt 📚@nickpunt·
These shorts are a masterclass, they use humor to highlight use cases where people are vulnerable and show how that results in the risk of being manipulated for profit. This is exactly the kind of thing we should be interrogating and drawing the lines on, before it happens.
Andreas Storm@avstorm

Love these new Anthropic videos

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Nick Punt 📚@nickpunt·
@Stammy This looks gorgeous. Have you found any split keyboards that are as efficient for design work as a MacBook keyboard with a big multitouch trackpad? I can't quit the trackpad at my thumbs, it's just too useful for navigating canvases.
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Stammy
Stammy@Stammy·
this upcoming "Compose" keyboard is the ergo keyboard Apple should have made. not for me (i really need a bit more key travel and kinesis adv/glove80-style layout) but i'm intrigued. read.compose.llc/p/our-keyboard…
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Nick Punt 📚@nickpunt·
@isabelleboemeke 💯 Everything boils down to bits and atoms, and right now we have too many outlets where bits become fully detached from reality, including this website. Bits need to return to atoms frequently to close the loop and ground us.
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isabelle 🪐@isabelleboemeke·
My theory is that the less we have to move atoms in the world to survive, the less opportunities we have to be humbled by the laws of physics, which makes us increasingly detached from reality. This enables people to effectively live in a fantasy world, where they can hold nonsensical beliefs because life continues unchanged.
🕊️@lichthauch

The most well-read generation in history is also the most confused about basic things that illiterate peasants understood without trying. my great grandmother couldnt name a philosopher but she knew what a man was and what a woman was and what children needed and when to stay and when to leave and she was right about all of it. she didnt have a theory of relationships she had relationships. marriage is like that. meaning is like that. my grandfather never once asked if he was fulfilled he was too busy fulfilling things and then he died and he was at peace and his children were at his bed. some things you can only know by doing and the doing has to be clumsy and unprincipled and you have to look stupid for years and we are too proud to look stupid which is why we stay stupid forever

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Nick Punt 📚@nickpunt·
@andy_matuschak @ConwayAnderson People go into games because they are obsessed with games. That obsession is the fuel that drives learning, and when you're stuck in a room with artists, engineers, and designers, you learn a lot about each others disciplines quickly! That's how it was for me in the industry
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Andy Matuschak
Andy Matuschak@andy_matuschak·
Confused: exciting new UIs seem rare in large part because inventing them requires both programming and imaginative design skills. It’s rare to find both in one person, and hard to coordinate in a dyad. But then: why does this kind of invention seem more common in games? If true, shouldn’t this be a problem in all design sciences, like architecture?
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Nick Punt 📚@nickpunt·
@NickMilo @kepano Personally I started using it in early 2021 *despite* it being file-based. I wanted a database. I commented on HN how it was dumb to be file based. But I held my nose and accepted the file-based limitations and ultimately was won over.
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Nick Punt 📚@nickpunt·
@NickMilo Obsidian executed better. Licat & Silver learned from Dynalist and laid good foundations, @kepano elevated it to a business, its low drama unlike Roam, approachable unlike enginerd logseq, etc. File>app is important but I think somewhat incidental to their breakaway success.
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Nick Milo
Nick Milo@NickMilo·
Actually, they won in 2020, but no one knew it, except a few of us, but the majority of people argued that no one wanted plain text files. They were too simple. You need a big database they said. Twitter 100% was against me on this. I have the receipts. At yet, here we are, six years later, and Obsidian just won, and now, this time, everyone on Twitter knows it to be true. So, what changed?
Arnav Gupta@championswimmer

In the new Claude-Code powered world, my choice to have stuck with Obsidian as a notetaking app (painfully migrated from Evernote many years back) has gotten vindicated. I see friends who are trying to install MCPs of Notion and continue to pay subscription to Notion, or MCPs of Roam, which does a piss-poor job of navigating their Roam graph, while with Obsidian you do not need any plugin, API or MCP at all. Obsidian is afterall just a codebase full of markdown files, you can let Claude Code lose into it - the filesystem is the API, plaintext is the format.

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Mehdi Kharraz
Mehdi Kharraz@imkh0·
@_Kavsoft Small nitpick: would it be difficult to make the main sheet "push" the left & right sheets as you scroll? The Books app keeps the spacing between the sheets instead of scrolling on top of them. And also the swipe down to close gesture?
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Kavsoft
Kavsoft@_Kavsoft·
Since each detail view is a scroll view, we can easily recreate the same effect by combining scroll geometry and custom scroll target behavior. Result👇
Nick Punt 📚@nickpunt

@_Kavsoft This is a cool effect, tho the best part from Apple Books is missing: vertical scrolling on the card transforms it into a full page

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