8px's Clipped Content – #5

📚 Your dose of pixel-based stuff

Mar 19, 2023

Hi everyone!

Clipped Content is back for another round of “you may have missed these links”.

What’s happened since November? From what I can tell, Silicon Valley screwed people over again, AI is definitely going to eat us all for breakfast, and Twitter is seemingly falling down faster than Elon’s reputation.

Enjoy!

Luis

p.s. If you don’t remember what this is, it’s a quarterly (apparently) newsletter that I send out which includes a bunch of cool stuff that I find from being online a lot.

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📖 Design takes time

Great video and article from the team at IA Writer explaining how it took them 3 years to finally crack the visual identity of their product.

Check it out

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🐦 Portraits artists have taken of their partners

This is a lovely thread.

Isabelle Baldwin 🌎🎞 @BelleNoelPhoto

Portraits famous photographers have taken of their partners (a thread):

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📺 Making bike saddles by hand

This one is for the craftspeople out there. It’s a short 2 minute video from bike saddle manufacturers Brooks showing us how a leather saddle comes together.

Check it out

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🐦 Going from product manager to founder

A great thread about the learnings of this transition.

dani grant @thedanigrant

Instagram and Notion have ex-PM founders. So I thought it’d be easy to jump from PM to founder. Here’s everything I wish I knew going from PM to founder:

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📖 The internet computer

An obnoxiously long read (12k words) about the future of the internet, and how the browser will be the key. Hint hint, they talk a lot about Arc and The Browser Company.

Check it out

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