😤 I knew you’d say this

Here’s a thread of all the interesting stuff we riffed about, to the extent that I could remember/summarize it

https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1367430831099113476

Moving fast+iteration > thinking a lot and then doing - almost a law of nature

Applies to startups, writing, coding, songwriting, machine learning, but also in finding your identity

Do many things, see how they feel, adjust accordingly

Trying to make a markdown parser from scratch.

Instead of going headfirst into heady concepts like parsers and tokenizers and lexers and all that stuff, I'm starting small and iterating up

So, step 1: using if statements to convert some text into a header Step 2: h2 and h3

I'm literally using an if statement to look ahead 1/2 indexes to see what kind of header it is. Super gross but hey, it works so far

The Design Of Everyday Things - Don Norman

Here's some tips on design I learnt from the book.

👇Thread 1) Often a designers assumptions of how tasks are performed is very different from how it is actually performed.
It's important to do the appropriate research and design for how it is actually performed