Malik Piara

Loved this 6 hour conversation between @lexfridman and @dhh. Listened to the whole thing on a long drive this weekend. It's well worth it. It's also nice to see so many people discovering the David I know — whip smart, energetic, persuasive, funny, reflective, self-aware,…

There are of course people specialized in many aspects of furniture: materials, types of furniture, part of the process (ie. concepts, development, production etc.) and so on. But as a designer of a chair you can'd do a good job without considering and prototyping the whole.

Feeling of mission accomplished after our first dinner for Portuguese in Tech in Dubai. Outono.org will be coming to more cities before the end of the summer.

I wrote about the rise of the exhibitionist designer–influencer, and what happens when sharing the work starts to be more important than the work itself 🤳 itsnicethat.com/articles/eliza…

Good advice doesn’t always come from people close to you. It comes from people who want what's best for you. When people are trying to influence you or please you, they tend to give biased suggestions. The most reliable sources of wisdom are people who put your interests first.

Social media has transformed us into brands. To a point where curating one may no longer be a lifestyle choice but a survival strategy. This is a wonderful reflection on the status quo and part of the reason why I build offline communities. eugenehealey.substack.com/p/the-authenti…

If you're in Lisbon this summer, this is a great way to get to know other software engineers and indie hackers.

"Sharing my work exposed me to opportunities I would never have had otherwise. It changed my life"

I was annoyed this didn't exist (only ones I found were >4 years old), so threw deep research and claude code at it. Would love contributions, mainly because I'd like to learn about this ecosystem a lot more – and maybe benefit anyone looking in future. github.com/ghostwriternr/…

If you’re in your 20s, your life should be messy. It should be dramatic. It should be a little nsfw. It should be a giant contradiction. It should be hard. These are the only people I want to spend time with in my 30s.

Self-discipline is the highest form of self-love and of long-term thinking.

Hosting a dinner in 🇦🇪 Dubai for 🇵🇹 Portuguese who work in tech and live there. Know anyone based in Dubai? Send them this link. lu.ma/oygc290f

The facts are simple and devastating: Aid cuts have already cost lives, and the number of deaths will continue to rise. Here’s the evidence.

working theory: the secret to life is having an investment in the future. starting a movement. having a child. joining a moonshot. mentoring someone. tackling existential risk. it forces you out of the radical individualism popular today, and into the collective duty we all need.

You can read all the books in the world about playing soccer but the only way you can be a great soccer player is (obviously) by playing a lot of soccer (and maybe reading a few books.) The same is true for any path to mastery — you have to practice, a lot.

LOOK BACK LESS One of the reasons companies have a hard time moving forward is because they've tangled themselves in the near past. Eyes aimed backwards rather than ahead, staring at the dark, feet in their own concrete. They've trapped themselves looking for certainty where…