One colour wrote the web → here’s your weekend workshop

_{Day 179/100}

Hey—It's Tim. 

Heavy week.
Brain felt like an overbaked cookie.
So here’s the lighter, nerdier stuff I saved while hiding from my inbox.

The blue link origin story

Marc Andreessen, casually explaining why hyperlinks are blue.
Someone had to pick a color. He did. Feels obvious now, but it wasn’t. Tiny UI choices become internet canon.

The thing that surprises me more is that’s it’s him…

siliconvalleybets

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Type toy you’ll lose an hour in

@kiel.d.m is doing witchcraft with type. And if you haven’t messed with spacetypegenerator.com, treat yourself. Move one slider and you’ll accidentally design a poster for a band that doesn’t exist yet.

Two creator follows worth your scroll

• @dmitrihasieas — crisp breakdowns on founder marketing that make you want to try things before overthinking them.

• @eugbrandstrat — the pulse-check on what’s actually happening in brand land

Have a great weekend. Touch grass. Then touch a slider on Space Type Generator and call it “research.”

See you tomorrow.

✌️ Tim "Keep Watching" Hanson
CMO @Penfriend.ai

Same brain, different platforms: X, Threads, LinkedIn.

P.S. Am I using Instagram wrong? I swear I use it for what people use Pinterest for…

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