Fouzan Alam

@fouzan
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He/Him. Clinical Ops at Neuralink, Angel - Frontier Tech & Web3, Strategy, Design, Product, Engineering, Ex-Med.

We’ve passed over $90,000 today, and we’re only half way through the Podcastathon!!

https://www.youtube.com/live/D-JZH0FX_TE?si=8-zAmy19p1uFV5-3

Relay for St. Jude Podcastathon 2024

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Just listened to connected 479 (flying through my backlog rn) and @viticci and @imyke both made some great points about apps becoming AI generated and “windows” into data.

One thing to note is that these types of apps are not very reliable unless you have a good underlying cognitive architecture around the AI model to assist it in doing the right things. So apps still have to be “differentiated” in order to be reliable.

@imyke i was working through my connected backlog and im on Connected 472, and was instructed by @viticci to send you this:

Terrific Steven Levy article for Wired on the evolution of the Mac and what has kept it so relevant.

Sprinkled with comments from Apple execs, like "Joz", John Ternus, Alan Dye, and Craig Federighi.

Great read...

https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-apple-secret-40-year-old-mac-still-rules/
#Apple #Mac #History

The Void is experiencing extremely high call volumes right now. Please hold. Your screaming is very important to us.
Today stings.

Add a button. Add a chatbot. Add a dashboard.

Those are all form factors. Which is fine. But when your idea is "the everything button" or "the everything dashboard" what I hear is "we don't know or care what users need, just put everything in there and let them sort it out."

And users will sort it out. They sorted it out with Bixby, through 3rd party patches to disable it. And they'll sort out the Copilot button too.

5/5

And when they need features but don't have a conception of how they will solve user problems, low product maturity teams turn to form factors. It's trivial to generate a dozen "ideas" when they are all some variation of "implement a design pattern from somewhere else that we don't have yet."

4/

What strikes me most about DHH's post about @ismh is that he tried to frame it as if he's some sort of Robin Hood bringing free stuff to the masses and making Stephen seem like the big, bad guy with the powerful ... kickstarter project?

Anyway, I was convinced that DHH was a creep a very long time ago. It's just impressive to see him show his true colors while also being a dick to a friend.