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Claude’s desktop app is a joke. UI, UX, performance - everything about it is bad. I don’t understand how a company with infinite money can’t hire someone, or at least allocate resources, to fix it. Compared to it, the Codex app is a masterpiece.

I have a theory that this is why relationships aren’t lasting as well. People are dating people they should have never crossed paths with irl cause it’s all online

Nollywood declined. Tech declined. Music declined. We need to do proper analysis on what has happened.

I see a lot of discussion around taste and craft for designers, but surprisingly little about business models and how they impact your day to day work. This came up twice last week as I was talking to designers evaluating their next role, so I figured I’d write down some thoughts I often find myself sharing. ----- The business model of your company will, to a large degree, constrain and shape the work you do as a designer. It will set the metrics you optimize for, the efforts that get prioritized, and the instincts you’ll build over time. Many designers, especially those early in their careers, don’t think about this when choosing where to work. While ultimately your job is to design a great product that users love, there are many nuanced and predictable ways that you’ll be impacted by business models. Here are a few examples: Ad-supported products Your world will orbit around attention. Impressions, time on site, scroll depth, CTRs, ad managers. These are all the things that pay the bills, and that in one way or another you’ll be impacted by them. Ad placements and engagement loops are required, and will create somewhat constant tension between what’s good for the end user (who is not paying you) and what’s good for your business (and advertisers). SaaS Users often enter these products via trials or sales. But much of the work is everything after that. You’ll be concerned with things like activation, churn rates, seat or net revenue expansion, as well as onboarding flows, admin and enterprise management, and all sorts of compliance features like SOC2 and more. Marketplaces With these, you’ll be designing for two (or three!) very different audiences at once. Think buyers or sellers, riders and drivers, hosts, and guests. You’ll spend time working on trust and safety (reviews, verification, dispute resolution) and how to increase or solve for liquidity on your supply and demand sides. Tensions can often come from trying to improve one side’s experience in a way that doesn’t compromise the other side that most users will never see. Gaming Whether paid or free-to-play, much of the business of gaming is spending time on monetization and habit formation. You want to sell upgrades and digital goods and also get users to complete streaks and challenges and unlock rewards all in a way that doesn’t feel extractive or icky. E-Commerce Conversion is king. Everything revolves around optimizing funnels, reducing bounces and cart abandons, and obsessing about how you can take a user who is playing with options on a product detail page all the way through the checkout flow. ----- No matter the business model, your chief responsibility is simple: design a great product that your customers love. But a designer who spent five years in an ad-supported product has built a very different set of instincts and habits than one who spent five years reducing SaaS churn or balancing a marketplace. Neither is better or worse. They’re just different; and will emerge as slightly differently shaped the designer, whether they realized it or not. So when you're evaluating your next role, don't just ask "What’s the product and who is it for?” Ask yourself: "How does this company make money?" That answer might just tell you more about your day-to-day than any job description will.

The ones that want something serious never ask. They just observe and make up their mind on if they can marry you or not.

Why is everybody trying to create content ?!?? Just exist

dating your coworker is just such a crazy concept to me idk

we can write a million essays about how the future Silicon Valley wants to build is underwritten by a deep disgust with / contempt for Being A Human, or we can just let them speak for themselves

We are normalizing a lot of weirdness and this will have consequences in the near future. I hope we will not pretend not to know how we got here in a few months/years time.

Our society is dangerously heading in a direction where, no matter how valuable, well-behaved, or intelligent a person is, they are denied a voice or not taken seriously simply because they do not “have money”.

Why do people keep building dating apps Build infrastructure and third spaces Normalize talking to people irl Teach social skills and rizz De-normalize swipe culture I know it’s hard and building a dating app is a lot easier, but fixing the root problems is the solution

Africa's tourism powerhouses can be categorized as; 1. Driven by great historical architecture: E.g. Egypt and Morocco. 2. Driven by wildlife: E.g. Kenya, South Africa, Botswana. 3. Driven by great beaches: E.g. Mauritius, Cabo Verde. Ghana's tourism strategy is genius - focusing on "heritage tourism" for African Americans. Yes, execution might be a challenge, but they have a winning formula. Nigeria, on the other hand, is coasting without a direction.

So it turns out the domestic version of this was a Trudeau-era, virtue-signalling, campaign style speech. This surprised me. Not because I didn’t expect some campaign-y, partisan rhetoric… this is politics after all. But because it was such a significant shift in tone from the Carney we heard speak in October in a pre-budget speech to students. The October Carney sounded pragmatic, focused on transforming the economy, making sacrifices, and hard choices. What I heard yesterday sounded more like Trudeau 2.0.

Nigeria has been selected as being in the U.S sphere of influence. U.S is not going to let it go to China. Finally people will understand why Nigeria has so many airports with such long runways.