Sudowrite is hiring a Product Design Lead to reinvent writing We're a small, very nice group of writers and technologists using AI to help authors tell stories. If you love writing and design, and you want to make creative tools, not B2B SaaS, this is your place...

This is a really lovely job posting. Sudowrite looking for a product designer who cares about building tools for novelists/fiction writers.

www.sudowrite.com/jobs/designer

James made it so that every time someone fixes a bug, our internal Slack bot writes flash fiction about them.

It's my new favorite thing ever!

The perks of working with writers making an app for writers!

Interview: Amit Gupta On Founding Three Startups, Being Saved by the Internet, and Saying No to VC

Ooop. I did an interview with my dear friend helena and now she's leaving silicon valley

open.substack.com/pub/foundert...

some good sci-fi on there

I am now…
I'm-getting-a-Kitchaid-mixer-for-christmas-and-I'm-stoked
…years old.

nextdoor in hawaii

probably!

discovering your desk is covered in breakfast

Another desk prank from Photojojo days

a work desk covered in real grass sod

we played some good desk pranks for people's birthdays at photojojo

miss working out of a physical office and being able to do stuff like this

Where do I find all the camera nerds on bluesky?

Loved my PowerComputing desktop in college. Fast and cheap.

I watched the Blackberry movie and now I want a Blackberry. Do they still make those?

I am now a person who goes to Home Depot on the weekend and buys tools he does not for certain need *right this moment*, but which it is completely reasonable he may need in the future .

Bonus movie: 📱 General Magic.

This one follows a bunch of the original Macintosh team as they defect from Apple to try to create the smartphone before the Newton existed.

Incredible story and incredible team. General Magic alumni went on to create: iPod, iPhone, Nest, Apple Watch, AND Android.

Tetris is streaming on Apple TV, Air is now free on Amazon Prime, and Blackberry's only in theatres for now.

👟 AIR - how also-ran shoe company Nike signed Michael Jordan, created the most profitable shoe brand of all time, and went on to dominate the industry.

📟 BLACKBERRY - the rise of the company that made the first popular smartphone... and then lost it all to Apple.

I love love love a good biz biopic. Lucky for us there are 3 great ones out recently:

🕹 TETRIS - underdog story of the cold war-era negotiations that brought Tetris to the world. Loved it, watched it twice...

Papaya!

Announcement: I just reached that point in my tropical fruit obsession where I felt ok spending $120 on a fruit picker 

The market-clearing price of a Bluesky invite on eBay is ~$150.

Or about 2 years of Twitter Blue.

Animator Kirsten Lapore (Marcel the shell) saw how it could make it faster and easier to get your message out, especially when your medium is painstaking slow to work in.

The Daniels (writers/directors of everything everywhere all at once) are terrified of AI and also use it all the time.

They talked about how the process behind your art will become more important as it becomes easier for anyone to make a polished final product.

Why is everything an "ancient Japanese art".

Where are the new Japanese arts?

Is it improved in any way?

I've considered it! What's the worse part?

I'm dreading it!

There's got to be something GOOD. Right??

It looks like 1Password is finally gonna force me to upgrade and pay a subscription.

is there anything better? 

The jaguar-based ones?

Why'd they stop them?