> Reading like a writer, using like a builder > Similarly, when you build an app for the first time, you surface all the tacit decisions involved in building. By engaging with those decisions, understanding them, and looking to see how other apps handle the same challenge, such as how they handle a transition between two screens or the thickness of a button border, you sharpen your own sense of what works and what doesn’t, and in the process, immerse yourself in the cultural tastes and conventions around those same decisions. "This is such a clever choice because if I were to build this, it would ..." [[Be the creator not consumer of your world]] > If you asked me what the function of humans is after AGI, It is to handle the transcendent with this same fine disregard for the rules. To look at what is great and what serves us, to play with it, to riff on it, to hold it loosely, and to orient towards it in a way that lets us co-create with it. > -- [[Against Taste]]