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Writing from Lenny Bogdonoff

  1. Thoughts before my next ten years

    11 min read Personal Essays

    A reflection on the past decade of work across government, big tech, startups, OpenAI, ChatGPT, and venture capital while thinking about what comes next.

  2. Thoughts on my 33rd birthday

    4 min read Personal Essays

    A few personal updates. Today is my 33rd birthday, and in somewhat abrupt fashion, I am moving to San Francisco. It feels particularly significant for the reasons I’ll...

  3. Second order effects of companies as content creators

    8 min read Startups and Work

    TLDR: There’s going to be a shit ton of temporarily useful content; businesses need to have a quick way to make the worthwhile content stand out. (Thanks Joseph) There...

  4. Text rendering stuff most people might not know

    3 min read Programming

    I was stuck on a problem that I wanted to write out. The problem I was trying to solve could be simplified to the following: I have a box in the browser with fixed...

  5. Why is video editing so horrible today?

    5 min read Media and Publishing

    In the last three months, I have done more video post-production than I have done in the past 12 years. Surprisingly, in these years, nothing seems to have changed....

  6. Making the variable fonts Figma plugin (part 1 – what is variable fonts [simple])

    5 min read Design

    See this video summary at the bottom of the post, or by clicking this picture. Important update: The statement that Google Fonts only displays a single variable font axis...