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Cake day: August 13th, 2024

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  • I never thought WeWork would succeed. Reasons:

    • the library was free to work at
    • they leased the property and then subleased it after rebuilding the inside
    • they offered free drinks, snacks, some places had gyms and showers too.
    • expanded very quickly and in LA had locations within a block of another.

    They are still around. It’s still around the same price to rent a desk for the day. But Regus, the actual property owner has their own desk rental service too.















  • When UI/UX was becoming the hot ticket in the late 90s/early 00s, the lesson always beaten into your head was to make navigating simpler, with the fewest clicks possible. Now they bury everything.

    YouTube used to let you make playlists on the fly, now you have to click into a small sub menu that is hard to touch without stopping the current video. Even disconnecting from a network is now an extra click than it used to. Google designers have totally lost the point. They are the reason people pay more for less with an apple phone.