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There's a state every builder eventually finds when the problem in front of you temporarily becomes the single most important object in existence. Call it flow or call it focus: founders, research teams, and people working on unsolved problems chase this state without naming it. It explains why people build as much as money or ambition do. And for me, the ambient soundtrack accompanying it sounds…
There is a strange arithmetic to the internet right now. By several recent measures, more than half of all web traffic is now generated by bots rather than people ( Stanford research ), and close to 3 out of 4 newly published pages contain text that no human wrote ( Ahrefs analysis ). The web is filling with rooms that look inhabited and are not, where programs talk to one another, reviews praise…
The best ideas I've ever consumed came from ugly websites. Since 2007, Hacker News has remained a beige table of text links, and yet it's still where founders, engineers, and investors go each morning to find the ideas that end up shaping the industry. Reddit, meanwhile, spent years and millions on a redesign, only to keep old.reddit.com running nearly a decade later because enough users simply…