Create slowly; Taste; Distraction
Issue #357
💡Think
Hello from Turkey 🇹🇷!
I’ve been here for a few weeks, eating my own body weight in food, swimming, and trying really hard not to engage in the latest design Twitter discourse.
There is one thing that has been on my mind recently, that I’d encourage you to consider at length:
Good teams are those made up of people you admire*.
Is this something that you feel in your current team? If not, what can you do to make that happen?
Have a great week,
Luis
*A point from Jason Fried’s newsletter
📷 Look
📖 Read
❶ Create slowly
I love this. It’s an argument against the rapid fire, constantly sprinting appetite that we have slipped into when it comes to work (and specifically, software design). Perhaps we don’t need to jump on the latest trends, software feature releases, or “best” ways of working, instead focussing on what we’re here to do – solve problems.
❷ Subjectivity, gatekeeping, and taste
This is an essay arguing for the importance of taste. As something that is pretty hard to define, it play such an important role in everything we do as creators. “I don’t like it” is our enemy, but how can we provide something they do like without building a foundational knowledge, or repeatable set of patterns, of what good even means?
❸ In This Essay I Will: On Distraction
This is a little different to normal types of articles I share, but I thought it appropriate. It’s an essay on distraction, because that’s the world we live in now. We are never truly present are we? How many distractions have you had since the start of this newsletter? It uses a rich literary metaphor throughout the article and raises concerns over the “dangers of overestimating one’s own intelligence”. Nice!
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Bonus round
Definitely a random one, but I’ll be in Poland next weekend/week for WaysConf. If you’re around, say hey 👋
Episode 7 of my podcast Design & Whine is out, about Bad Things. Spotify, Apple
🎧 Listen
What would a humane web look like?
This is a marketing podcast, there’s no getting around that (the intro is the cheesiest thing I’ve ever heard. You can skip to around 8 minutes 🙄), but there’s a healthy discussion in it about what the web could/should look like if we approached it in a more sustainable de-centralised way.
Listen to this podcast
Spotify – Apple Podcasts
Have a great week,
@disco_lu