{"id":945,"date":"2015-04-26T07:37:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T07:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/spotifys-design-lead-on-why-side-projects-should\/"},"modified":"2015-04-26T07:37:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T07:37:00","slug":"spotifys-design-lead-on-why-side-projects-should","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/spotifys-design-lead-on-why-side-projects-should\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify\u2019s Design Lead on Why Side Projects Should Be Stupid &#8211; First Round Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/firstround.com\/review\/Spotifys-Design-Lead-on-Why-Side-Projects-Should-be-Stupid\/'>Spotify\u2019s Design Lead on Why Side Projects Should Be Stupid &#8211; First Round Review<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<blockquote class=\"link_og_blockquote\"><p>\u201cThe only way a side project will work is if people give themselves permission to think simple, to change their minds, to fail \u2014 basically, to not take them too seriously,\u201d says van Schneider. \u201cWhen you treat something like it\u2019s stupid, you have fun with it, you don\u2019t put too much structure around it. You can enjoy different types of success.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify\u2019s Design Lead on Why Side Projects Should Be Stupid &#8211; First Round Review \u201cThe only way a side project will work is if people give themselves permission to think simple, to change their minds, to fail \u2014 basically, to not take them too seriously,\u201d says van Schneider. \u201cWhen you treat something like it\u2019s stupid, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}