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It was written by a human.

Source: I'm a human. I wrote it.

Thank you, sir.

I appreciate the serious analysis and reply!

I agree with most of it, but I also don't see why all blog posts have to be serious. I had fun researching and writing it, and I don't pretend it's a scientific masterpiece.

I can't see how it wouldn't be intentional. A weird choice though.

This one boggles my mind. But it's a real logo, so there were at least a few people with decision power who didn't know and let it happen.

Even the Claude one? :)

And when you put the funding, that's where the valuation is coming from.

My personal website definitely helped me get hired. Here's how.

Whenever I create something, either for work or personal, I add it to a "Featured" section on my website's homepage. Over time, it became such a nice and comprehensive list that I now use it every time when talking about past projects or whenever a "Can we see some examples of your past work or appearances?" comes up.

It has different types of work and is exhaustive enough that whoever asks, can find what they're looking for. I had a lot of positive comments from prospective employers about it.

What started as a mini project for me to collect all the scattered links for myself so that I don't forget or lose anything, became a great asset that keeps on giving.

Here's the link that I send when asked about "examples of your work": https://www.velvetshark.com/#featured It's an anchor link of my homepage that scrolls straight to the Featured section.

Oh, just to clarify: the "Featured" section is not the only thing that people find interesting. Once they're on the page, they can browse around and find articles that are of interest to them. That helps too.

I wrote an extensive article about this: https://www.velvetshark.com/why-do-brands-change-their-logos...

Since its publication it even got featured in a Spanish textbook, and I get tons of traffic to it all the time. The topic seems very much valid for the last few years, with no sign of change.

The main reason seems to be to look good (or even readable) on mobile, but it seems that it's more of a bandwagon than a proven good strategy.

https://velvetshark.com Personal, work, non-work, TILs, anything. It's a personal blog, anything goes.

My most popular article, featured on HN (and even got into a Spanish textbook) is "Why do so many brands change their logos and look like everyone else?" https://velvetshark.com/articles/why-do-brands-change-their-...

Author of the article here.

There are many, MANY versions of images from my article on Twitter, with attribution cropped. I wanted to have a subtle and small contribution and to not be obnoxious. It seems that it's not a good idea. Too easy to crop, post as your own and sound smart.

It's even worse on LinkedIn. There were multiple posts with cropped images, literally tens of thousands of likes, and zero attribution, then not even addressing direct comments and calling them out.

David Perell used one of the cropped images but he didn't know the source. When I commented on it, he added the article to his Twitter thread, with proper attribution.

Designers decide that they need to change the logo and come up with 50 variations, from bland to wild. Then a committee decides on "the best" one. With each, someone on the committee finds something they don't like, until there's nothing to take away, just bare, sans serif, black letters.

Allegedly, the game was rejected 6 times before it was finally approved. Even then, it was approved on the condition that the big bugs will be fixed by December 10. Apparently, they weren't.

1298.

The article doesn't answer how many, so I've counted.

It takes 1298 GNU/Linux users to change a light bulb.

Including the father of the first user, excluding the 6 that complained, and then complained again (they're counted only once). And also, assuming there's no overlap between all the groups, which is probably unrealistic.

Freelancember has listed most of the mistakes indeed, along with the solutions on how to solve or avoid them.

Example: https://freelancember.com/excuses-for-not-raising-your-rates... - how to deal with raising the rates and not ending up stuck at the bottom level.