Friday Links
🗣 Five-and-a-half powerful minutes of black parents telling their kids how to deal with police. If you only look at one thing here, please make it this one.
🔍 Claire Lew pens a fantastic piece about why a company’s vision matters, and how to figure out what your vision is.
🍰 Carl Erik Fisher writes a thought provoking piece about willpower.
🌐 Dan Luu shows us exactly how much the web sucks on a slow connection (and reminds us that millions of people around the world are still stuck with very slow connections).
📱 Mark Stanton provides a surprisingly interesting deep dive on the nuances of rounded corners. Now I know what a curvature comb is!
🎛 Jason Fried writes a case study that shows how complexity can creep in and cause problems.
🌈 Alex Denisov decides to alter the Stickies app that comes with macOS in order to change the colors. A fantastic look at reverse engineering.
🔴 Ken Segall shares an entertaining look behind the scenes of Apple’s HAL ads from 1999.
🖥 Stephen Hackett talks about some of his favorite Apple displays. That 17-inch ADC Apple Studio Display is quite the looker.
🗺 Apple announced WWDC pretty early this year due to a change of venue from San Francisco to San Jose. John Gruber has a nice writeup about it.
🏊♀️ Jason Kottke shares and writes about a delightful short film by Maximilien Van Aertryck and Axel Danielson called Ten Meter Tower.
🍽 And, finally, Sarah Kay talks about Table Games.