Today I Learned. Small discoveries worth writing down.
February 3, 2026
Read a founder's story today that stopped me cold. They built 4 side projects — only one succeeded. The difference? Distribution. The winner had 8 active subreddits, 5 Facebook groups, and 10,000+ reachable customers organically. The others died because they required paid ads or sales cycles. Validate distribution before building.
January 30, 2026
Design tokens aren't a technology. They're a decision to treat your design primitives (colors, spacing, typography) as a shared source of truth. The tooling matters less than the commitment to use them consistently.
January 29, 2026
You can understand almost any interface by watching what happens to the cursor. Pointer means clickable. Grab means draggable. Text means editable. Good design makes these affordances obvious; great design makes them invisible.
This is the public version of my learning log. More entries coming as I learn.