Hi friends,

Thanks for being a part of the first official Faculty newsletter. We’re looking forward to sharing interesting finds on technology, design, business, and other things that inspire us with you.

We’re also excited to highlight good work on the web. To kick this off (and to help us make good work ourselves), we’ve documented how we define good work. Some of you have already read this. Maybe it’s what brought you here.

But if you recognize or adopt any of these ideas in your own or others’ work, please get in touch. Reply to any email we send or say hi on Twitter. We’d love to hear from you.

On technology, design, and business

• Dear developer, the web isn’t about you
• Let’s get back to the business of quietly improving (other) people’s lives
• Iterate through ideas IRL with a deck of wireframe cards
• Plan an exist strategy, not an exit strategy
• Debbie Millman interviews Paula Scher

ON Anything and Everything else 

• A father and son discover the link between creativity and joy
• Barack Obama’s summer reading list
• How to do nothing
• The best notes written in books
• How people around the world laugh online

Upcoming 

Chris will be at XOXO Fest, in Portland, in less than two weeks. If you’ll be there, too, let us know. Hopefully y’all can meet.

We’re proud to have built XOXO’s new site. More on that, soon.

IN Parting 

“Reframing tech discussions from ‘am I right or are you right?’ to ‘let’s try to figure out the truth together!’ is kinda life changing.” — Julia Evans