For the first time I feel it. The spark. The joy. The unity. It’s been lost. Not sure if it’s due to time or technology…maybe both. I’m no longer going to ignore it. Hoping saying this out loud names it and starts a new chapter.
I need space between all that is happening. But finding it irresponsible to disengage. The soul is dimming. The work is dull. The tech is harmful.
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I’m convinced that the number one competitive advantage any company can possess is a great team.
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designers are good founders > engineers:
1) they talk to users
2) they solve problems methodically
3) they care about how it looks
4) they care about users winning, not just tech
designers who build things are the future - we should encourage more of it, not less.
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Design straight to code — that’s been my case for over a year.
I point people to repos.
The source of truth is the code.
I’m seeing a lot of scary stuff about people still drawing rectangles.
Unless you make assets for marketing materials…
Code. Software has been solved.
All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, that they may act their dreams with open eyes to make it possible. - T.E. Lawrence
Spent the last 24hrs running 120mile relay race with friends and coworkers in the foothills of Texas.
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New on the blog:
— Someone behind the software
I think good products carry something of the people who make them
karrisaarinen.com/posts/some…
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Frantically fixing a confusing product caused by frantic shipping is just more of the same.
Pause and step back. Get the team clear on what you’re building and why. Have clarity to guide the shape, what ships and what doesn’t.
Quality is a way of working, not a cleanup sprint.
Is pen pals still a thing? Writing letters and waiting weeks for a reply would feel refreshing and exciting.
I’m a simple man. If I need autobots to help me run my life and work, I’ve already lost. I want simplicity over optimizing production. Maybe I’m just cut from a different cloth. If we are all so concerned about this tech why are we continuing to integrate everywhere?
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design, craft and point of view are the differentiators
slop-maxxing is not sufficient to win
Software is increasingly treated as disposable in the AI era. Yet we spend half our waking lives looking at screens! We don’t want to spend that time with zombie products—monotonous, vacant, and uncared for. We want products with soul. 💜
I go deep on this in my talk from @lennysan's Summit: youtube.com/watch?v=GLvFTMtw…
efficiency, productivity, speed
we keep worshipping these words like they are what we live for
ship faster
merge more
manage more agents
compress every loop
remove every pause
turn every hour into output
but what is the point of endless production if there is no time left to think deeply?
not react
not optimize
not summarize
not clear the queue
think
to sit with a question long enough that your real intention starts to appear
to find the purpose underneath the motion
to ask whether the thing being accelerated should exist at all
ai could be a new canvas
a way to make strange things
personal things
impossible things
tools, worlds, poems, games, interfaces, films, languages, rituals
things that let more people touch the shape of their own imagination
but instead, so much of it is becoming slop factories
more content
more funnels
more tickets
more fake work pretending to be value
you can merge 2000 prs
you can manage 500 agents
you can wake up to dashboards proving that the machine kept moving while you slept
but what is the point if you only sleep 5 hours a day?
what is the point if you stop talking to other humans?
stop learning about the past?
stop playing?
stop wandering?
stop being surprised?
what is the point if your whole life becomes optimizing the system that is consuming you?
speed is not meaning
scale is not wisdom
automation is not freedom if it only makes everyone run faster
and where are we running?
toward what?
a world where every person becomes a manager of machines, and every machine produces more things no one had the time to truly want?
the danger is not that ai makes us lazy
the danger is that ai makes us endlessly busy
that it gives us infinite production before we have found intention
infinite execution before we have developed taste
infinite motion before we have learned how to be still
maybe the real frontier is not more speed
maybe it is discernment
knowing what not to make
knowing when to stop
knowing when the most productive thing is to sleep, read history, call a friend, play with a cat, walk without tracking it, or stare at the ceiling until the false urgency dissolves
tools should give us more life
not turn life into a tool
if ai is going to matter, it should not just help us produce more
it should help us become more human
more imaginative
more free
otherwise, it’s the same old factory
just without humans














