Ideas

Ancestors and victimhood

By learning more about our ancestors we might learn a little more about ourselves and about life itself

Resources

Community design canvas

A canvas you can use to help you think about designing better communities

Ideas

Myth of meritocracy

Why does working harder not guarantee success, while those that are mediocre prosper and do well?

Community

Community-first design

As we move beyond building solely for individuals, how can we start to think about building with communities?

Product

Honk

How does this radical new product leverage ephemerality and chaos to reinvent our relationship with texting?

Design

New theory of product design

Design has become a patchwork of theories that is barely holding itself together. Can we do better?

Strategy

All juice, no sauce

Today’s organizations are industry leaders in irrelevance. Why does this happen and how do you break the cycle? 

Product

Clubhouse

An exciting new app arrives changing the way we interact with audio. What is Clubhouse and why is it the future?

Growth

Second childhood

Child are curious and courageous. But life compounds and we lose these traits. How do we regain what we lost?

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Ahmed Al-Ismaily

Writing about design, community and growth. Designing products. Aspiring investor. Former design instructor. Learning code and Arabic.

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