Jason Fried

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Co-founder and CEO of 37signals (Basecamp, HEY); co-author of Rework, Remote and It Does Not Have to Be Crazy at Work.

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design 4

The original Cuisinart, with its two paddle buttons and clear affordances, was peak interface design, and it has been downhill from there.
The most interesting design is design that changes your behaviour, more than what something looks like or how it works.

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vibe coding 3

Confusing how something was made with what was made is confusing the kitchen for the meal
How fast or hard a product was made says nothing about whether the product is good

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behavioural science 2

Free in-person events tend to have a high no-show rate, with far fewer people attending than the number who signed up or RSVP'd.
Even as AI makes building software easy, people will still prefer to buy some software off-the-shelf rather than build their own.

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