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Tom Hosiawa
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Building @ http://rigelblu.com | Product | Generalist | Live to understand how things work and bring ideas to life
Not a shortcut, but Raycast has something called Snippets

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November 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I remember this happening a few times to me. In many cases, just from reading and watching people on the internet

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The 4-Minute Mile Effect
Running fast. Reading lots of books. Skipping classes. Being very social.
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July 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
“We must first learn a discipline which teaches us the true relationship between ourselves and our surroundings”
June 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM

They can persuade us that we must have more method, and more system, because we are afraid of our own chaos. Without method and more method, we are afraid the chaos which is in us will reveal itself. And yet these methods only make things worse.”
June 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
“We have so far beset ourselves with rules, and concepts, and ideas of what must be done to make a building”

“Convinced that we must work within a "system" and with methods”

“This is why it is so easy for others to play on our fears.
June 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
“Indeed it turns out in the end that what this method does is simply free us from all method”

“But we learn too, that this capacity in us is not accessible, until we first go through the discipline which teaches us to let go of our fears”
June 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I think of them more as training wheels, paint by numbers now. Understand the discipline, the relationships, the whys – then free yourself and shed it.

Fav excerpts:

“But though this method is precise, it cannot be used mechanically.”
June 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Subjective, experience that you can't measure is just as valid what you can measure. The key is you need to learn how to express what that creative makes you feel and why

Jony Ive's talk reminds me of this lesson
May 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
- What does the target audience get from it?
- What are the calls to action?
- What’s the log line?
- What would a contrarian say?
- What emotions and feelings is the target audience having coming into this?
November 24, 2024 at 3:16 PM
# Follow up questions, ask one at a time?
*questions I learned to ask from IDEO’s storytelling course*

- What stories do they tell and what are they about?
- What do they want the target audience to remember and share?
- Who’s the target audience?
- What’s in it for the target audience?
November 24, 2024 at 3:16 PM
# Here’s the change I made for article takeaways
Put into the customer prompt (i.e. Claude Project)
- What are the key messages?
- Provide supporting quotes from the text for each key message
November 24, 2024 at 3:16 PM
November 24, 2024 at 3:16 PM
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