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if i had to start over tomorrow, i wouldn't try to be a better designer. that race doesn't end. someone's always faster. someone's always cheaper. someone's always got a shinier profile.
i'd go look at what everyone else is offering. properly look. and then find the thing nobody's doing.
that's the gap. that's the whole thing.
and then, this is the part people skip, you say it. out loud. over and over until it's boring to you and obvious to everyone else.
because a gap you found and never talked about is just a hunch you had once.
Finding the gap instead of trying to out-skill everyone already in it is genuinely the smarter play
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Read/Design is a personal project that started as a way to keep my curiosity about design alive. Think of it as a digital library built from the books I've collected over the years. The idea is to share, every month in an Instagram post, the insights that stuck with me the most, with the goal of spreading knowledge and encouraging the reading of physical books.
Since sharing your process is the thing now, here's how this came together: I designed the graphics and website myself in the old-fashioned way, but the site itself was built in Claude Code with a Notion database behind it. Huge respect for developers. This build cost me two migraines and way too many tokens.
