Pascal Laliberté

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Everyone Wants Progress For digital creatives, a weekly post on developing those other important skills.

Along with the week's article, the Everyone Wants Progress newsletter on Saturday morning will have my personal encounter with "The Wing Economy".

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We're baaaaaack! And more chaotic than ever

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Listen. My son spends his free time creating games on Scratch, drawing animations, always a creative project.

Showed him MacBook Neo. Wants the yellow one.

"It's like owning a Gameboy Color and putting it in your pocket"

(!)
(!!!)

It makes no sense!
But it makes total sense.

Potato potato

Like I always said about product-making:

Less OpenClaw
More MacBook Neo

Say what you will about a given (non-fiction) book…

Whether it's good,
whether it's well-written,
whether its ideas have been covered elsewhere…

If you're a person in motion, learning, juggling ideas, needing to be reminded of old and new angles…

Then most books are gold.

If this is the title of an upcoming article, then the answer is surely 'No'
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Didn't go much further with this experiment.

I was trying to create a 3d model from which I'd create realistic pngs to shade the front of a paper book spine.

Describing the mesh to Claude got it to spin its wheels.

That's not quite how the spine of a hardcover book is supposed to be modelled

MacBook Neo is quite the flex for Apple.

This isn't a compromised product. They created a new body and new internals. An iPhone chip alone can't justify the lower price.

Its competition: other iPads, Chromebooks.

Such a flex.

Pleasing the Teacher Being in business has little to do with school. You need to learn the value of experimentation, to find answers that aren’t on the test, to work outside other people’s expectations. But you’re not com...

Being in business has little to do with school.

If, however, you still love models and theory, be sure to keep that interest alive. Win at business, keep working on theory. Win independence, then invest.

And then teach us what you've learned.

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I’m currently reading about "deliberate play", a counter to "deliberate practice".

Lately, coding with AI assistants has brought me a lot of satisfaction, and definitely got me into a mode of play.

Anyway, I know the transition is hard for some, but that’s been my experience.

Squishy button ...

I made a squishy button

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GrammaCrackers on YouTube does Minecraft videos and she is adorable.

But I suspect that she’s really a lifelong comedian.

The meme is too good.

Trivial Work You can now build your ideas faster than ever.You can do something that will get you a result quick.You can automate and delegate and make the difficult disappear.

To escape trivial work, make progress by making small but hard commitments. Build muscle, have difficult conversations, keep your word.

Because it's easy to do trivial work, but you can't do that forever.
And big goals might leave you exhausted anyway.

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- visits a separate book list rendering on click with margin between books
- view transitions each book and shelf to animate
- CSS animation for levitation wobble
- <canvas> with pixie-dust Stimulus controller beneath each book

Any of you like this effect?

1. Hitting "Rearrange" on the book page
2. Enable MagLev 😂

You win at internet with this post

> Batman and Robin are going to be joined by The Riddler

Not too far off. Not too far off

> 1. Should I be scared?
> 2. Are Brian and Justin having a child?

Not too far off, not too far off

I know.

Batman and Robin are going to be joined by The Riddler.

Questions:

1. Should I be scared?
2. Are Brian and Justin having a child?
3. Will it cost me to change my weekend plans?
4. Is it still going to be a conversation between the two actual panel hosts, or their AI avatars?
5. Can I be invited as a guest?

Did you know a group of Cybertrucks is called a cringe?

If you think about it, the very best books are really just extremely long spells that turn you into a different person for the rest of your life

Hey devs.

We’re precious about our hosting providers, but what’s stopping Claude or Open AI’s online version (or even their mobile app) to host mini apps right in their UI?

Their custom framework and UI primitives, saved as apps inside the main app.

People would love that.

Forget Lovable.

We’re back on productivity porn.

Then:
Lifehacker, Inbox Zero, GTD, whatever we were doing to give us an edge so we didn’t hate the jobs we needed to keep.

Now:
LLMs and agents, whatever we are doing to give us an edge so we don’t hate the jobs we need to keep.

Productivity is not the point.

Feeling it too my friend.

Enthusiastic, For Free You can work on something responsible. Keep a promise you made, serve the moment that’s in front of you, do the work that needs to get done. That’s the professional thing to do.

Enthusiasm is like vitamins.

As a creative, you want to make sure you’re not in a defiency.

So indulge in your enthusiasm a bit, because it’s free.

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