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  • ryanchris
      Ryan Freitas @ryanchris

    Never solve with interface what can be solved with good copy.

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  • ryanchris
      Ryan Freitas @ryanchris

    The Golden Globes is how everyone else on twitter gets revenge on sports fans.

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  • ryanchris
      Ryan Freitas @ryanchris

    Lean development never meant "cheap" and MVP never meant "half-assed."

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  • ryanchris
      Ryan Freitas @ryanchris

    Last week’s “let’s pretend we’re constitutional scholars” on Twitter was fun, but tomorrow’s stab at “quantum theoretician” will be awesome.

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  • ryanchris
      Ryan Freitas @ryanchris

    I find that most people who indignantly ask "how hard is it to keep a service online?" have no fucking idea.

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  • ryanchris
      Ryan Freitas @ryanchris

    “And YOU get a game 5! And YOU get a game 5!” said Bay Area Oprah.

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  • ryanchris
      Ryan Freitas @ryanchris

    Key inflection point in a young interaction designer’s maturation: they stop fetishizing interfaces and focus on fulfilling user’s needs.

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  • ryanchris
      Ryan Freitas @ryanchris

    "Church? This is San Francisco. We go to brunch."

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  • ryanchris
      Ryan Freitas @ryanchris

    On Facebook, The Sound of Crickets

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  • ryanchris
      Ryan Freitas @ryanchris

    Smartest bunch of engineers on the planet just brought home gold. #JPL #Curiosity

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  • ryanchris
      Ryan Freitas @ryanchris

    If my two choices are stand with #occupy or stand with people pepper-spraying kids protesting nonviolently, I'll be over here with #occupy.

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  • ryanchris
      Ryan Freitas @ryanchris

    An ounce of empathy is worth ten pounds of market research.

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  • ryanchris
      Ryan Freitas @ryanchris

    NYC wants to be Silicon Valley so bad they're trying to mimic the earthquakes.

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  • ryanchris
      Ryan Freitas @ryanchris

    Amending my earlier comment from “Google Glasses = Segway” to “Google Glasses: The Segway You Wear On Your Face”

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  • ryanchris
      Ryan Freitas @ryanchris

    No one has used it, everyone's got an opinion. What an atmosphere to try and launch anything in.

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  • ryanchris
      Ryan Freitas @ryanchris

    So let’s step back from the extremes and find something that everyone can live with. Because what we’ve got isn’t working.

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  • ryanchris
     
    Ryan Freitas @ryanchris

    @mike_ftw Roethlisberger to Tebow: "I was taking away a women's right to choose while you were still in school."

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  • ryanchris
      Ryan Freitas @ryanchris

    For the sake of every parent that has lost a child. For every family that has lost someone to gun violence. Some kind of compromise is due.

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  • ryanchris
      Ryan Freitas @ryanchris

    Make it simple. Make it fun. Break it down. Blow it up. Reduce friction. Remove constraints. Iterate. And then do it again.

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  • ryanchris
      Ryan Freitas @ryanchris

    Attention young entrepreneurs: want to figure out which industries to disrupt?

    ANYONE STILL USING A FUCKING FAX MACHINE

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Co-founder of about.me. UX designer. Investor. Advisor. Proud husband and father.