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Steph Ango

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42 from 21 Nov 2012 to 20 Oct 2025
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2025 2

  1. Use the saw, fear the saw
  2. If you're remote, ramble

2024 5

  1. Self-guaranteeing promises
  2. What can we remove?
  3. Love is freedom
  4. Earth is becoming sentient
  5. 100% user-supported

2023 16

  1. Choose optimism
  2. Many ways to win
  3. Pain is information
  4. Quality software deserves your hard‑earned cash
  5. Buy wisely
  6. How I use Obsidian
  7. Style is consistent constraint
  8. Concise explanations accelerate progress
  9. Don't delegate understanding
  10. In good hands
  11. Caloric energy is precious
  12. Nibble and your appetite will grow
  13. File over app
  14. A bicycle for the senses
  15. Black pixels
  16. How I do my to-dos

2022 7

  1. Great tools choose to be bad at some things
  2. Don't specialize, hybridize
  3. Photoshop for text
  4. Calmness is a superpower
  5. Evergreen notes turn ideas into objects that you can manipulate
  6. A camera for ideas
  7. 40 questions to ask yourself every decade

2020 1

  1. Stadium of selves

2019 1

  1. The elusiveness of digital paper

2018 3

  1. Design is compromise
  2. Solving problem-finding
  3. A little bit every day

2016 1

  1. 40 questions to ask yourself every year

2015 3

  1. Scars are beautiful
  2. Default to empathy
  3. Every app is a superpower

2013 2

  1. Be vanilla
  2. Always learning, always teaching

2012 1

  1. Agents of chaos