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2026 2

  1. Lessons in harness design: context, compaction and memory
  2. Lessons in harness design: context, compaction and memory

2025 3

  1. If anyone builds it
  2. AI labs are just regular product companies
  3. Scale changes everything

2024 2

  1. All my anxieties
  2. Leadership lessons from Ernest Rutherford

2021 3

  1. On range versus specialization
  2. Work intently, not relentlessly
  3. Housekeeping

2017 1

  1. Tunnel vision

2016 1

  1. With great devices comes great responsibility

2014 2

  1. Don't launch with a splash
  2. Gut, data and bias in VC

2013 3

  1. Diminished substitutes
  2. When you go flat
  3. Just a couple of minutes

2012 10

  1. Dreams and aspirations
  2. Goal-oriented design
  3. The future of discourse
  4. App.net and you
  5. Craftsmanship and perfection
  6. Our obsession with tools
  7. Serendipity
  8. Google.
  9. Inventing on principle
  10. Dark data, and how frustrating it is that we can't see the forest from the trees

2011 21

  1. Looking back, moving forward
  2. Google's new iPad search app
  3. Buffy, social, and Google
  4. Power of veto
  5. Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
  6. Just following competition
  7. Media bullshit
  8. 2011 10 04 4s
  9. The early days of Techcrunch
  10. Kindle Touch: a big deal. The Fire: we'll see.
  11. Geek to Chic
  12. On Android, Google and Motorola
  13. Real names and social networks
  14. So about those animal books,
  15. That "special thing" in people
  16. No little plans
  17. The recent Dropbox snafu
  18. Go watch Mike Monteiro's "F*ck you. Pay me."
  19. Dear Twitter,
  20. Stephen Elop on Nokia
  21. On Android app sales and fixing app stores

2010 32

  1. Read this before 2011
  2. The designer as investor
  3. So what is a designer?
  4. A quote from an old email
  5. Dear Andy, (a letter to Google's Andy Rubin)
  6. The "d" in Design
  7. Fixing your startup means fixing your process
  8. Joining 500 Startups as a mentor
  9. Design early. Earlier than that.
  10. A road to millions
  11. On entrepreneurship, double-downs and exits
  12. Norman on simplicity
  13. Design leaps of faith
  14. Dear Dave: I have the facts and I'm voting no
  15. App store usability
  16. It's too late for MySpace
  17. The oddities of pricing simplicity
  18. 960gs Textmate bundle
  19. Dear Mozilla,
  20. Out of Cupertino: innovation, iPads, silence
  21. The last slide from my SHiFT 2010 presentation
  22. The Twitter vs Facebook battle is already over
  23. I was wrong about location and success
  24. Jon Rubinstein's letter to Palm employees
  25. The gift of knowledge
  26. One very important thought on tablets, jetpacks and our future as a species
  27. Storytelling in business
  28. The oncoming era of cloud-connected health products and services
  29. OK Go on labels, online video and the music industry
  30. On the Palm Pre, the iPhone, and an open letter to Jon Rubinstein
  31. Dave McClure on design, marketing and eating your own startup dogfood
  32. On the new French piracy law

2009 20

  1. RSS issues, now fixed
  2. How the Chumby blew an opportunity to be a huge commercial success
  3. Reading list for the end of 2009
  4. On the importance of design research
  5. A quote from Adam Greenfield
  6. Lessons learned - part 1
  7. On work, pleasure, and occasionally contributing to the world at large
  8. Weekend inspiration: Stefan Sagmeister on taking a year off
  9. A quote from Design as Art
  10. Silicon Valley needs people, but that's the easy part
  11. Slow projects
  12. Beyond RSS, an opportunity
  13. On Google's acquisition strategy
  14. A quote for the weekend
  15. A piece of advice I once got from Paul Graham
  16. Stop using your RSS reader
  17. Why Apple needed the Palm Pre
  18. The new "PR"
  19. On Twply and giving out your Twitter password (updated)
  20. Design thinking

2008 8

  1. Europe, Silicon Valley: Here we go again
  2. A quote for the weekend
  3. Weekend inspiration for November 29, 2008
  4. On peak potential
  5. Future transit
  6. A bit of weekend inspiration
  7. A matter of mindset
  8. Beginnings