Sculblog Design Choices
My previous work with web development, including with React and Next.js, was not exhaustive, but it was enough for me to realize that what these frameworks are usually used to build is not what I think the internet should be. These “interactive web applications” that have been popular as of late have detracted from what the internet was originally intended to be: a codified protocol to share information and documents between computers.1 These “interactive web applications”, with their bells and whistles, fancy animations, scroll-hijacking, chatbots, and 3d effects, are a huge waste of effort and generate nowhere near as much economic value as much effort is poured into it. So, I want to build a framework that brings the internet back to what it was originally intended to be - a framework that focuses less on interactivity, and more on simply communicating information. I want to see people write. The internet for its existence thus far has been a catalyst for niche ideologies and groups to form and then spread into the mainstream (looksmaxxing, peating, microplastics awareness, to quickly name a few). (If I want people to write more, it might more worth my efforts to make a syntactical tool to make ideas expressed as concisely as grammatically possible without losing any information… And perhaps a suite to determine if something is “worth reading” or not according to some arbitrary criterion… to prevent pollution of the ...
What I learned from my First Startup
From November 2022 to September 2023, I was involved in a startup
Wonder Clothing while I attended LSU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. So far,
I learned more in that experience than just about any other experience I
have had. Even two years removed from it, it is a lot to reflect on
holistically, so I will be writing about five things I learned from
Wonder Clothing.
1. Team
I recall this tweet by Paul Graham.
If you’re less than 23 and your startup has more than 4 founders,
the reason is probably not because you needed that many but because you
had a big group of friends and didn’t want to exclude anyone.
I met these two guys who said they wanted me to join their clothing
startup, I agreed, and then they recruited two more. I ended up being
the first co-founder to exit. With five, it became confusing what was
delegated to who, with multiple roles split up between people
such as social media presence. As a result, our social media presence
was lacking. It frequent where there would be a lot of talk of what was
to be done, but it would fall between the cracks between all the people.
Incorporation took a very long time because one of the co-founders was
located in another state. Design was split between me and another
person, but that actually proved to be a good thing because I think we
both learned a lot from each other about design.
2. Mission
Streetwear clothing was already an oversat...