Your creativity (without drugs)
This week is all about how systems beat inspiration every time. We've got 11 articles, including:
- How 12 specific techniques let you systematize creative output through deliberate shifts instead of waiting for inspiration.
- Why treating Claude Code like a team member instead of autocomplete changes what you actually ship with it.
- How Cursor's $100M+ revenue runs on internal discipline and belief in the work, not external hype or exit obsession.
- And more...
Most Interesting
A look inside Cursor
A fascinating look inside Cursor's culture that runs on talent and real belief in the work. They find engineers through workshops and code patterns, ship an internal version three months before the public sees it, and nobody talks about getting rich despite hitting $100M+ in yearly revenue.
Design + Development
Loram: A bold, modern sans with retro warmth
Loram is an all-caps sans-serif font that distinguishes itself through its bold, thick letterforms, crafted by Typeface Design Studio exclusively for YouWorkForThem.
Animating icons (that actually work)
Static icons just sit there. This React library pairs Lucide's icon set with motion primitives to make SVG icons actually respond when you interact with them, without killing performance.
N27 is a typeface built for real work. 33+ languages, stylistic alternates, fractions, superscript, scientific inferiors, ordinals. If you're designing across markets or need actual typographic control without juggling five different font files, this does it in one.
What I actually use Claude Code for
A practical guide to getting more out of Claude Code by treating it like a team member instead of a fancy autocomplete. The contrarian bit: stop judging AI tools by how they work and start judging them by what they ship.
Closing the gap between thinking and doing
Fitts' Law started in 1954 as a button-clicking principle, but it's the backbone of every interface we've built since. In XR it becomes volumetric zones and muscle fatigue. In voice it's cutting down how much you have to say. In neural interfaces, it'll be closing the gap between what you feel and what the system actually gets. But do we really need it anymore?
Tech + Innovation
In his AI Speaker Series presentation at Sutter Hill Ventures, Henry Modisett, Head of Design at Perplexity, shared insights on designing AI products and the evolving role of designers in this new landscape.
What's actually happening with AI in 2025
McKinsey breaks down where companies actually are with AI adoption versus where they think they are. It walks through the gap between widespread pilot programs and the handful of orgs seeing real financial impact.
Work + Mindset
How to be creative (without taking drugs)
A collection of 12 specific techniques for systematically increasing creative output. Each one is a deliberate environmental or behavioral change you can make, built around the idea that creativity responds to new inputs, not just harder work. Practical, optimistic, and structured for people who want a repeatable system instead of waiting for inspiration.
This is a reflection on what it means to live without wasting your life, built around trusting your inner compass over cultural scripts. It makes the case that downtime, wandering, and time in nature aren't distractions from meaningful work but essential to it.
102 books in 12 and a half months
A collection of 102 books organized into 12 life categories (fitness, money, sleep, focus, etc.), with each section pulling out 5-15 key learnings from the books in that area. It's structured as a reference guide covering health, productivity, relationships, and personal development. The whole thing reads like distilled notes from a year of reading, organized by theme instead of chronologically.
