Ganesh Kumar
@ganeshahaa
design engineer | product @miso_energy @X @amazonalexain @pleo | hci alum @iuluddy ~ now building http://letterbeta.vercel.app
there are days when i rewatch wreck-it-ralph and other disney/pixar masterpieces because they have important life lessons and metaphors that address my problems better than any kant philosophy, kafka novel, or tedx video ever will. today is one of those days.
If every designer who gets treated badly just takes the money and stays quiet, founders (esp in the SF tech scene) never learn and keep doing it to others. Just survived the most chaotic startup hiring experience. Time to break the silence 🧵:
just ask people “how have i annoyed you recently?” and don’t be defensive, don’t react, just listen.
I’m also interested in making this live — so any devs interested on collaborating (India or the US), pls dm me Bonus points if you’re a lil crazy about health tech like me 🥸
I didn’t see any health tool that works when your brain’s tired, your data’s scattered and your focus is low - so I built one myself. A system that gives the right insight, at the right depth, when you need it. Presenting my capstone, my baby: Attune.
i need to learn an efficient way of packing with the right bags
what might we collect like photographs in the future? since 2010s we started collecting screenshots.
this Monday we’re feeling like a bread crumb floating around in a bowl of tomato soup
the grok is an example of reality reproduced in the digital… a mirror reflecting the tendencies of inequality, racism, sexism and consumerism that contaminates our present-day
most difficult thing in consumer tech is taking something “ahead of its time” and cutting it down to something “right on time”
someone with typography taste has returned after 12 years to @goodreads 😁
not enough people are talking about the goodreads rebrand
wishing that messages had different contexts of time... it could be an urgent, fast response. or it could be like a pen-pal type or professional or courtesy situation... you respond thoughtfully & earnestly based on the capacity you have to keep up multiple threads. i think we,…
these days everyone documents themselves all the time, but back when you started that notion seemed very novel.
why does it take 5-7 business days to refund my money when it took 5-7 seconds to take it
the reason the world is so strange now is that it's recorded, and a tool that repeats nonchalantly