@aarav_p
Senior Product Designer at Linear
Product designer working on tools for writers. Big serif energy. I think most software needs less, not more.
Imagine if your bookshelf reorganized itself every morning based on what you read most last week. By Friday you would have nothing on it but the book you keep going back to because you cannot get past chapter four.This …
The SEO industry has decided that the rise of AI search means everything we knew is dead and we need to start over. This is wrong. It is the same mistake the industry made about voice search in 2018, mobile-first in 201…
For most of my twenties, I traveled like I was collecting stamps. Patagonia. Iceland. The Inca Trail. Each one a milestone. Each one a photograph for the wall and a story for the dinner party.I do not regret the trips. …
Lisbon is a city that asks you to slow down whether you want to or not. The hills make it impossible to walk fast. The trams stop without warning. The pastel de nata is an excuse to sit somewhere and write.I went there …
The FIRE (financial independence, retire early) movement has produced two opposite distortions. One half of the community insists FI requires a million dollars in low-cost-of-living markets and three million in San Fran…
If you read enough longevity research, you start noticing that the same habits keep showing up in the data. One of them is morning daylight exposure combined with light movement. Twenty minutes of walking outside, ideal…
I spent eighteen months at the same MRR before I touched pricing seriously. I had assumed pricing was a thing you set once and forgot. Three months of experiments later, MRR is 3.1x.Experiment 1: removed the free tierRe…
I have built two SaaS products to ten thousand dollars in monthly recurring revenue. Both took roughly ten months. Both were built by me alone. Neither had a launch announcement that anyone noticed.Here is the checklist…
