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Ahmad

@ismailahmad.com
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at the intersection of Design & Business. This is my digital gardens—it’s quiet, personal, and it’s a space I document my experimental knowledge on design, business and personal philosophy. 🌐 ismailahmad.com 💭 wandarer.com

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 24/04/2026
As soon as you defend a product with "it isn't useless" you're doing the thing the maker wants you to do. NOTHING is useless. It's the lowest bar for anything that exists, including a rock. What you're looking for is "it is the best thing that exists for this concrete purpose" then we can talk.
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Ahmad @ismailahmad.com · 23/04/2026
When they train the model, they forget they’re also training us to recognize its work. I am sure I am not alone in this, AI work is now distinct enough to tell apart Claude work from Chatgpt.
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Ahmad @ismailahmad.com · 21/04/2026
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Rachit Dubey @rachitdubey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/
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Ahmad @ismailahmad.com · 17/03/2026
The industry did well enough to make a lot of people accidentally rich, which attracted people who were now expecting to get rich, so they got pissed off they weren't getting rich as quickly as the last group. That's when the problems switched from "what do people need" to "I'm not rich yet.
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How to grow strawberries
Feels so good to have a studio again. This week’s question comes to us from Anthea Tawia: I came to San Francisco to visit the company I work for—sadly I was...
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Once, technology solved problems. People liked having problems solved, so they liked technology. Tech execs started to think of that sentiment as their due. So when they stopped solving problems, and people stopped liking them, they became outraged. "How dare you not love whatever we give you?"
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Ahmad @ismailahmad.com · 12/02/2026
🦋 — Liza Enebeis
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Lynn Fisher @lynnandtonic.com · 08/12/2025
You too can make a tiny, fixed-width website in the year of our lord 2025 ⚡️ lynnandtonic.com
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Lynn Fisher
Lynn Fisher is a web designer, CSS developer, and artist from Phoenix, Arizona.
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Ahmad @ismailahmad.com · 13/11/2025
Talked a bit about envy. open.substack.com/pub/wndrgrnd...
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Envy.
I can't stop asking these questions, are my desires truly mine, or a reflections of others influence?
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Ahmad @ismailahmad.com · 03/11/2025
My take on Affinity being 100% free. Of cos I am excited, but I am also skeptical. So I wrote my thought down, and will be correcting my self as time goes and their strategy reveals. open.substack.com/pub/wndrgrnd...
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Affinity is "free", at what cost?
Last year Canva acquired Affinity a professional design tools alternative to Adobe for several undisclosed millions of dollars, it was exciting and comes with a breathe of fresh air for the creative c...
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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 24/09/2025
Dispatch #31: Anti-Design Design to compensate for a lack of design Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3eL... Audio: pnc.st/s/faster-and... 1/x
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Dispatch #31: Anti-Design
YouTube video by Faster and Worse
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UX How @uxhow.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
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On "ChatGPT Psychosis" and LLM Sycophancy
John David Pressman
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Ahmad @ismailahmad.com · 04/04/2025
Sometimes it’s good to stepped outside and watch the sun and water. Favorite part, waiting for the sunlight
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Ahmad @ismailahmad.com · 05/03/2025
Focusing is hard! Onward, I have decided to just stick with three areas — Business, Software Design and Technology! Because learning is so addictive, you can easily fall into the rabbit hole, biting everything without committing to it! This road leads to mediocrity.
A laptop of Ismail Ahmad writing HTML, CSS and JavaScript. With Cake and Coffee on the side.
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Ahmad @ismailahmad.com · 05/03/2025
"The hard part isn’t finding proof before you begin. The hard part is beginning, knowing you might not succeed." — Seth
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Johanna Sneed @johannasneed.com · 25/02/2025
TLDR: a personal wiki. They’re notes and ideas linked together by association. Less formal than a blog and embrace the concept of learning in public. M. Appleton’s post on the concept is often cited! Use of gen AI has made so many blogs unreadable for me, so I’m finding gardens refreshing to read.
maggieappleton.com
A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
A newly revived philosophy for publishing personal knowledge on the web
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Ahmad @ismailahmad.com · 05/02/2025
The word here is not “anti-design.” It’s more like “anti-quality”—speed at the detriment of craft. Love is rarely poured into software these days, except by the crazy ones who defy the odds. Art itself is deteriorating, maybe due to all the new definitions (I could be wrong).
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Ahmad @ismailahmad.com · 01/02/2025
A lot is not going as planned, feels like chaos is all around. But this peace, this peace, where is it coming from.
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Ahmad @ismailahmad.com · 31/01/2025
I think Google is the winner of this whole AI game.
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Ahmad @ismailahmad.com · 31/01/2025
Human’s clamor for something that’s outside their control, it’s why we invented religion—to yearn, worship, but since that system is flatlining and no longer serving us we seek something fresh, unique relatively owned by us — this generations.
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Ahmad @ismailahmad.com · 19/01/2025
Universe does have a way of keeping scores. Both evil and good are sometimes equally rewarded. I am not talking about karma here.
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Ahmad @ismailahmad.com · 11/01/2025
Winter :)
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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
all art is made from spite or horniness, and a computer cannot be spiteful or horny, so a computer should never make art
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Ahmad @ismailahmad.com · 07/01/2025
Snow sleeping pretty :)
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Ahmad @ismailahmad.com · 09/12/2024
My first #Bluesky post. New start!
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