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The Roundup

The Roundup: A field guide to AI prompting
An excerpt from a new book on using Claude Code
 • Aarron Walter
The Roundup: The most important product you'll ever design
Three things we learned from Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup and Incorruptible
 • Eli Woolery
The Roundup: Friction, gratification, and leaving room for imagination
Four things we learned from writer and game designer Ian Bogost
 • Eli Woolery
The Roundup: Aaron Draplin on building a personal brand
How to find ideas and inspiration where no one else is looking.
 • Aarron Walter
The Roundup: Design history in jazz records
How great music inspired great design.
 • Aarron Walter
The Roundup: Summer reading list
Relaxing reads that will get your wheels turning.
 • Aarron Walter and Eli Woolery
The Roundup: The Cambrian Filter
Three things we learned about which tools — and ways of working — will survive
 • Eli Woolery
The Roundup: What the founder of Creative Mornings learned about creativity
Creative Mornings founder Tina Roth Eisenberg on measuring "return on friendship," why side projects increase your surface area for luck, and the case…
 • Aarron Walter
The Roundup: Being correct and being ignored
Lessons we learned from writer and technologist Paul Ford
 • Eli Woolery
The Roundup: Who funds the future?
Jessie McGuire on how meaningful design actually gets made.
 • Aarron Walter and Eli Woolery
The Roundup: What AI Can't See
Five things we learned from Brooke Hopper, Senior Principal Designer for Machine Intelligence and New Technology at Adobe
 • Eli Woolery
The Roundup: How beliefs make or break us
The most dangerous words in the English language is whatever comes after ‘I am.’
 • Aarron Walter
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