James Gill writes short personal essays on product design, software building, and sustainable businesses, drawing on ideas like Munger's inversion and the changing role of AI in building software. The excerpts show a reflective, first-person voice that connects ideas to his own experience as a non-engineer founder.
Website: https://www.jamesgill.co/
First-person stories from two early Slack team members about building the company, product and business, including the IPO era, the 2020 redesign and the Salesforce deal. Readers get an insider's view of product decisions and company dynamics.
A practical newsletter by a design educator on using AI coding tools like Claude Code for design work, including making demo videos, prototyping in code, and managing parallel agent sessions. Readers get step-by-step workflows, case studies, and course or workshop announcements.
A Substack from the founder of Sublime combining curated ideas with reflections on building human-centered products. Recent issues include notes on the limits of proxy metrics and a weekly interview series, Humanmaxxing, with tech writers on thriving in the age of AI.
Sneak Peek shares interview-based tactics from design teams at companies like Granola, Deel, and Pocket FM on using AI tools such as Claude, Cursor, and Lovable in their design and prototyping workflows. Each issue distills a handful of practical takeaways from one team's process.
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