I had the opposite realization with “pizzazz”, which I assumed came from a an older exotic word like pizzicato, but was actually made up in the thirties because it sounded funny

quite the collection

I heard somewhere Facebook was inspired by NASA’s H-Mode metaphor when designing Facebook Ads UX but I cannot find anything about it anymore :-/

Marquis de Sade is just perfect. Opulent and overwhelming.

Solow paradox IMO

the Sistine Gang

Au contraire, frivolous but ornate displays of elegance are living creatures most potent way of earning respect. A flower is a weed talking Ancient Greek to the bees

Tactile interfaces are intuitive and particularly relevant for tasks requiring quick feedback with defined parameters: copywriting, translation, search, etc.

I built demos around this idea as side projects but I ended up using some of them quite a lot for actual tasks

blot.im :)

Same here. Preview is great to reason over complex problems, and once it has a plan or a diagnostic, mini's speed, longer output and ability to follow orders faithfully becomes especially useful

Not a purely mathematical use case, although it is part of it, but I like o1's ability to help me find solutions to problems with many variables. It's good for cases like finding issues in complex codebases with many moving parts. It's "rarity" also push me to rubber duck effectively to avoid waste