Alex Dobrenko
@alexdobrenko
writer comedian just a lil guy head of vibes at Sublime
Alex Dobrenko
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The second difference is that design thinking relies on an interplay between analysis and synthesis, breaking problems apart and putting ideas together . Synthesis is hard because we are trying to put things together which are often in tension. Less expensive, higher quality for instance. This is where Roger Martin's idea of integrative thinking is... See more
John Maeda • What does design thinking feel like?
A good product is:
- Innovative; it must have creativity
- Useful
- Beautiful
- Easy to use
- Unobtrusive, modest
- Honest
- Timeless ; it won’t become outdated
- Doesn’t skip over any small details
- Environmentally friendly and doesn’t waste resources
- Not overly designed, “less is more”
Patricia Mou • vol.33: 15 Mindful Product Principles from Allen Zhang, Father of WeChat
Dieter Rams’ 10 principles of good tool design
It is a question of when—not if—large and growing areas of countries become uninhabitable owing to prolonged freshwater shortages, extreme heat, widespread flooding, and frequent, costly storms. Bangladesh may well be the first country with a substantial population to face this problem on a large scale. The amount of land able to support human
... See moreRichard Haass • The World
I don’t know that I’ve ever read a book that is better at dramatizing—embodying—the feckless confidence of one’s early 20s, that feeling that if only you and your genius friends could be set loose upon society you could transform it, terraform the political and cultural and artistic structures of the earth and make a new world, a better one.... See more
It Was a Work of Staggering Genius—and a Sensation. Then It Went Away. What Happened?
“charisma of the book”
The warning for us in this, whereby we might take advantage of their mistake, is to realize that we are doing the same thing with scientific method. There are certain kinds of personalities who tend to become very rigid in their scientific ideas and thereafter automatically exclude certain possibilities because they do not happen to conform with
... See moreAlan Watts • What Is Tao?
the big lesson being to avoid rigidity in decision making
We are fragile creatures, and it is from this weakness, not despite it, that we discover the possibility of true joy
Dalai Lama • The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
TYSON: Well, listen. I was scared to death. Because I had a spiritual death; I died. I’ve dealt with death to the closest magnitude I ever could. But once you go through that process, you realize dying is beautiful. How could death be bad and life be beautiful? It’s a total contradiction.
PEREZ: That’s kind of the same concept in religion. I mean,... See more
PEREZ: That’s kind of the same concept in religion. I mean,... See more
Rosie Perez • Mike Tyson Tells Rosie Perez How a Shamanic Revelation Inspired Him to Fight Jake Paul
OKAY hear me out… I feel like you’re niche is kind of like tender chaos. You write like you’re trying to touch God through a breakfast burrito or something. Tbh seeing your writing style has helped me relax into my own weirdness / oddities more. When I see it work for you I get excited about how it could work for me.
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