👋 Hello! Welcome to this week’s ADPList Newsletter, a weekly advice column. Each Tuesday, we tackle design, building products, and accelerating careers. We’re looking for sponsors. If you’re interested to support our newsletter to advertise, let’s chat here. Hi fellow readers! First, I want to address the elephant in the room 🐘 — 54%~ of you gave me a good FOMO for missing out on #Config2023; I hope you enjoyed yourselves in person or virtually.

This is not a home decor newsletter, but it is a newsletter about taking up the space we need and want in this world. Also I just like home stuff, even though of course it’s complicated. But so very fun to talk about! So forgive the slight departure from/expansion on our theme today? Something you may not know about me is that I am the nosiest person when I go to someone’s house for the first time and I absolutely want to hear all the stories about how you found it, what projects you’ve done or not done, and all its little quirks and surprises.

Update, May 27, 2023: I have uploaded a video addendum to the original, detailing a lot of these settings and configurations. It’s linked here: watch on YouTube Almost a year ago now, I published a video on YouTube that provided a demonstration of how I use the Apple iPad as a central part of my music-making process. The key to this process is the iConnectivity Audio 4c audio interface, which allows for sharing of audio and MIDI between 2 computers/tablets.

I remember the internship I had at the end of my junior year in college. I was totally out of my depth working in logistics for the first time. I needed help even understanding the assignment, but I was painfully shy, and I didn't know what to do when I got my first project. My manager was very senior and extremely busy, and it seemed like she was always out of the office.

Hello everyone, A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of hosting my friend Alix Pasquet III for an intimate conversation and Q&A (previous conversations: The Learning Mindset, Great Investors Build Networks). The conversation fit well into the effort of developing a framework for understanding great investors. Alix focused much more on mindset and practices than innate qualities. Great Analysts are great idea generators. What I think a really good analyst does is he maximizes opportunities, and he's willing, if he doesn't have all the qualities of a great investor, to surround himself with people that have those qualities and is able to still exploit and maximize opportunities.