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  <a href="/" class="green-square">Daniel Zarick</a> <em>makes things for computers &amp; phones via Chicago, IL</em>.
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        <h2>Hey! I'm Daniel.</h2>

<p>Most days I spend my time exploring software and writing. Outside of that I'm building <a href="http://shortwave.xyz">Shortwave</a> and designing <a href="http://www.housecraftapp.com">Housecraft</a> with some wonderful people.</p>

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<p>In the past, I've done work for <a href="http://ngrok.com">ngrok</a>, <a href="http://oneshot.link">OneShot</a>, <a href="http://jewelbots.com">Jewelbots</a>, <a href="http://runkit.com">RunKit</a>, <a href="http://silviaterra.com">SilviaTerra</a>, and others. Earlier in life I worked for <a href="http://twilio.com">Twilio</a> as a product manager and <a href="http://coudal.com">Coudal Partners</a> on Field Notes notebooks.</p>

<p>Otherwise, I have a long list of failures. My personal failed products are <a href="http://mocky.com">Mocky 😭</a> (a magic window into your team's Dropbox), <a href="http://driftless.co">Driftless 😢</a> (your friends' best Amazon purchases), <a href="http://theshakedown.co">The Shakedown 😞</a> (shake your phone, get points, be happy), <a href="http://hermes.33cc77.com">Hermes 😩</a> (helping designers &amp; developers find jobs in Chicago), and <a href="/tools/colorplane">Colorplane 😑</a> (a color picker for humans).</p>

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          <a href="/blog/draw-the-owl/">
            <h3 class="title">Draw the owl</h3>
            
              <small><p class="excerpt">My favorite phrase to help me just figure it out and do the work.</p></small>
            
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          <a href="/blog/digging-your-own-hole/">
            <h3 class="title">Digging Your Own Hole</h3>
            
              <small><p class="excerpt">A honest recap after I shutdown one of my failed projects.</p></small>
            
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          <a href="/blog/creating-moments-for-discovery/">
            <h3 class="title">Creating moments for discovery</h3>
            
              <small><p class="excerpt">Is creativity actually just a form of idea excavation?</p></small>
            
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          <a href="/blog/write-your-own-code/">
            <h3 class="title">Why I care about code</h3>
            
              <small><p class="excerpt">Software designers should be as close to the code that users touch as possible.</p></small>
            
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          <a href="/blog/open-for-business/">
            <h3 class="title">Open For Business</h3>
            
              <small><p class="excerpt">How can anybody help you if they don't know that you need help?</p></small>
            
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          <a href="/blog/frivolous-experimentation/">
            <h3 class="title">Frivolous Experimentation</h3>
            
              <small><p class="excerpt">Small experiments regularly grow into big and important ideas. Don't ignore them.</p></small>
            
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          <a href="/blog/making-yourself-irrelevant/">
            <h3 class="title">Making Yourself Irrelevant</h3>
            
              <small><p class="excerpt">Sharing your process and tools doesn't hurt you, but makes the whole stronger.</p></small>
            
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            <h3 class="title">OneShot, a one week design case study</h3>
            <small><p class="excerpt">A detailed breakdown of the work process for a popular text screenshot tool I designed.</p></small>
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