What people recommend, in their own words, with the receipt.
Co-founder and CEO of Linear; previously principal designer at Airbnb and founding designer at Coinbase.
2 things
Jiro Dreams of SushiOther David Gelb
I’m a fan of sushi, but even more, I look up to people who care about their craft. I don’t think I can ever have that kind of dedication for 75 years, but I can be inspired by people like Jiro.
Essay 'Jiro's Dream' reflecting on the documentary and its ideas about taste and craft.
karrisaarinen.com ↗·2012-09-02
The Auteur Theory of Design (Macworld speech)Other John Gruber
In his Macworld speech The Auteur Theory of Design (I highly recommend you to watch it), John Gruber underpins taste to be even more the liability of the person in charge
Essay 'Your Product Needs a Soul' about taste in product design, citing Paul Graham and John Gruber.
karrisaarinen.com ↗·2010-02-12
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.
The small bar beside a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.
The bar shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Full and green is recent. It drains, and turns amber and then grey, as the post gets older.
What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The bar is empty after about:
A striped bar means the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no bar.