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This is precisely why it's the right design for an Apple car and probably the wrong design for a Ferrari. I knew someone who allegedly worked on the Special Project after a success…

My recollection, now quite fuzzy but deeply entrenched, is the key is to never touch the throttle. The LSO would yell at you but I noticed your speed slowly drifts down from drag u…

I'm quite struck by the title of this announcement. The box being drawn around "your world" shows how narrow the AI builder's window into reality tends to be. > a new way to connec…

Mannkitchen Pepper Cannon. I absolutely adore this device and have bought a few as friends for discerning cooks and mechanical gadget lovers. Build quality is utterly fantastic and…

This made me laugh unreasonably hard.

Quite welcome! Sadly I don't know of any resources that are really useful when you try to put things into practice. Most of the tutorials / blogs / forum posts I've seen are not re…

Huh, well apologies for the assumption though I merely have the blog images to go off. When I look at the render that shows the top ortho and the one for the bottom cable geometry …

If you're in Shapr3D you should change all your radii and fillets to "G2" in stead of G1.* Currently all your corners (excepting the ones that use Apple's supplied bezier points) a…

My favorite watch at the moment is a replica Moonswatch on a decent NATO strap. I am always quite tickled that wearing a copy of a copy that gets any street cred / sense of history…

I've been daily driving a 2013 MBP. After occasional memory upgrades, hard drive upgrades, and battery swaps this decade-young computer of Theseus runs great. But the real reason I…

I definitely use his blog to be thoughtfully informed when it matters. As a 40ish startup guy myself I take on many roles, including helping set product and technology strategies. …

Beauty in the eye of the beholder and all, but the Swedish work is largely quite pretty and readable where the Estonian guidelines are an excellent of what designers do when they c…

Just today I attended a 4th grade parents orientation at a Silicon Valley school where they noted they will be placing new emphasis on handwriting and cursive, specifically in orde…

Thanks for the kind words! I love the "helped" preface because it's exactly right, design is a team sport and I strongly believe in giving credit where due. Ben Chen ( https://www.…

Yes, it is absolutely in a feedback loop. It's kind of bizarre to see up close. The consumer hardware duopoly of Apple and Samsung are the only ones who seem to actually drive manu…

Hi Eric, I'm a hardware startup guy myself (our paths have crossed) with the distinction that my own "very specific set of skills" has been honed at smartphone megacompanies and sm…

Snarky answer says "why would you learn to improvise from a textbook?" Actual answer is: because after 10 years of having a mediocre classical piano teacher beat the love out of my…

I love this. When I first started taking guitar seriously, after years of kid piano lessons, I really struggled to "find" notes. I mostly play both by ear and by visual shape, not …

Instagram has slowly been deprioritizing content creation and promoting content consumption. This was clearest to me when they recently moved the Post button up to the top, out of …

This is why at Apple the division making MacBooks is called "portables" and not "laptops." They're officially not supposed to go on your lap. Also the thermal limits of the human d…

Was it actually? Because I'm hard up for a good Silk Road read. I slogged through Raoul McLaughlin's "The Roman Empire & the Silk Routes" because it's online reviews were glowing f…

"Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" is her signature book and for many (myself included) a spiritual experience to read. "The Writing Life" is the best book about the process of creating tha…

Apple has been working on glasses at least since 2006 and perhaps earlier, far longer than this article indicates. Perhaps there's not continuity in these projects, but I suspect a…

I was part of this history, when I graduated in 2003 (marginal timing) I took a gig at Northrop in Sunnyvale. I grew up in Silicon Valley as the grandkid of folks who lived in orch…