The times that design delights us are memorable because we sense the empathy of the work’s creator. We feel understood, almost as if by using the work, we are stepping into a space designed precisely for us.
— These Notes are from Frank Chimero's The Shape of Design
There is a tendency to think that to delight someone with design is to make them happy. Indeed, the work may do that, but more appropriately, the objective is to produce a memorable experience because of its superior fit.
Design doesn’t need to be delightful for it to work, but that’s like saying food doesn’t need to be tasty to keep us alive.
"Who ever said that pleasure wasn’t functional?"
Charles Eames
Anyone know a good iOS engineer? (asking for a friend)
I expected AI to lead to software listings being added to Borderline.biz
Instead, every listing I get is low quality spam
Unexpected
I think we'll see software that was previously priced at $20/mo get repriced to $20/year.
I don't necessarily think SAAS companies will lower their prices, but with replication costs going down, competition will drive down the price.
Enter the commoditization of SAAS.
A final desperate attempt at saving a defeated empire
Eid Mubarak :)
The difference between the best companies like Stripe & your average bank when it comes to design is that...
Not one pixel will be off.
Every padding, margin, radius, font weight, color will be considered
It's the same for any luxury experience
Time spent considering details
I disagree though. You could spend the energy of an entire star and still not attribute any value to bitcoin.
The only energy we as humans value is human conciousness, so the energy that bitcoin is "recording" and not "storing" is human labor.
"You pity the moth confusing a lamp for the moon, yet here you are confusing a screen for the world."
The best analogy I can think of is an accounting record.
That's what currency is, a table of who did how much work.
And we trade our own time and labor.
Bitcoin helps us trade our labor fairly, without theft.
I've never bought because I understood that bitcoin has no value, and so it cannot be priced.
The thing I'm starting to realize, is that we are not pricing bitcoin's underlying value at all. But the value of our labor, recorded in bitcoin.
..your time.
When inflation happens, they steal your time on earth.
You can use anythng to keep a record of labor.
You can use gold, dollars, rupees, bitcoin.
That's my working thesis.
Happy to hear counter opinions.
But I'm changing my position on Bitcoin.
Bitcoin is not a store of value, because no currency is.
Currency is a record of labor measured in units.
Because human labor, and human time on earth, is the only real value.
Every currency is denominated in it.
So is the dollar and the rupee.
$1 is a unit of your labor..
No iphone user has ever felt as important as someone holding one of these
Bitcoin has not won, but it must win.
Therefore, Bitcoin is a technology backed movement, fighting a more corrupt one.
..so what do you think of AI?
A big mistake people make in their career is confusing "contract value" for "market value"
Your contract value is what you get paid at your job. If unemployed, it's zero.
Your market value is what you can generate for a business.
You should only care about market value.
What do you know for sure?
When GDP growth happens, shouldn't you get taxes from the government as dividends?
Listing on Borderline.biz is free, but not easy
I review every listing to make sure the valuation makes sense
If you vibe coded an app in an hour and want $10k for it, it's not going to go live
I only approve apps with real substance
Founders who execute in hours, succeed in years
Founders who execute in weeks, succeed in decades
The greatest trait a founder has is urgency
The obvious solution to higher productivity is to work less
If we all took Friday off, we'd be working 20% less
If AI really improves global productivity by 20%, then all we have to do is collectively take a day off to balance it out
We already take 2 days off, why not 3?
I've been rejecting a lot of listings on Borderline
People are pricing apps at $15k that anyone could vibe code in a day
I think lots of people haven't caught up to reality
Code on its own without revenue is worth 10-30x less than 2 years ago
if everything on earth was free, what would change about the way you live?
What's ironic is that, now that you can build anything quickly
Instead of seeing an explosion of software, you'll see an implosion
What's going to happen is consolidation on a grand scale
Where previously it took 10 apps to perform a set of tasks, will happen in 1
