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Y Combinator · The New Full-Stack Designer
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Why Are Designers Becoming Full-stack?
Marvin Schwaibold says designers are becoming more full-stack, and he puts engineers and product managers on the same shift. The wind he had just pushed on a grass scene is the kind of fun project he says he could not have done before AI. He might have had the ideas, and he still was not allowed, or able, to execute them.
He calls this the change in the design role. The work runs in every direction, and there is no limitation now on who can carry an idea through.
Aaron Epstein follows with a pattern he sees on the prototypes: small widgets that control the variables, so the feel can be tested. Previously that was not worth anybody's time. A person might tweak values in code until they were
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What Is a Website's One Primary Goal?
Marvin Schwaibold says a website should have one specific primary goal, the main thing a user should do on arrival, and the whole narrative should be built around that one thing. On Nstack, he is not sure what the primary goal is. The options he floats are get started or talk to the agent, yet buttons for general engineering, marketing, and get started share the same color, so nothing shows which one to focus on first. Plenty of other elements pull attention away from the main goal.
On Collins, the book stack was the heart of the website and the visual work the team wanted to show off. It was an easy way to navigate into the page, and visitors can spend a lot of time there because it is eas
Dwarkesh Podcast · Robert Caro – The master biographer reflects at 91
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Did Robert Moses Realize He Was Changing?
Robert Caro says Robert Moses did not realize he was changing. From the beginning, Moses felt he had a vision for roads and parks, believed it was the best thing to do, and believed it should get done.
No matter how many hardships he had to inflict on people, and no matter how many thousands he had to evict, Moses was going to get the roads built. If someone stood in his way, he was going to remove that person. Henry Epstein, a politician in the Bronx, opposed the Cross Bronx Expressway because the route ran through a neighborhood where tens of thousands of people would have to be evicted. Moving it two blocks to the south would evict only a couple of hundred people. Moses set out to destro