Andrei Stoica

Disclaimer aside, the best answer I've come up with is that the most likable, charismatic, enjoyable people to be around are people who demand nothing of you. That's the best phrasing I can come up with after trying for two years. At first, I had "ask nothing of you" but it didn't quite feel right. It felt too detached, like they wanted nothing... See more

⁠Our DEI work at garden3d is centered on creating a safe and equitable space that is inclusive and encourages all people to be their true selves. We’ve chosen the BICEPS framework as the guiding philosophy behind our DEI work. BICEPS focuses on addressing our core needs as humans: Belonging , Improvement , Choice , Equality/Fairness ,... See more

Design, to take from industrial designer Naoto Fukasawa, is an embodiment of values. And thus products act as a built environment of value assertions. Both by their existence and in the case of many digital technologies - with their every use and app open.

Yes, there can be taste in technology. But the problem is that the majority of practitioners are not consciously trying to extend nor synthesize towards improving quality of life.

Instead we are stuck in the darkest loop of identity confirmation derivatives, in order to extract and accumulate professional status for ourselves.

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It’s become a meme that every AI essay trying to Do SomethingTM in the world must launch with its own custom-built microsite, usually with a serif font, minimal design, high-minded title, and off-white background. Situational Awareness, AI 2027, Superintelligence Strategy, Gradual Disempowerment, The Intelligence Curse. Their designs each suggest... See more

As Foucault said of Bachelard a few years later, his characteristic approach was to avoid all defined hierarchies, any universal judgments: ‘He plays against his own culture with his own culture.’ He stood apart, separating himself from the mainstream, finding cracks, dissonances, minor phenomena that he could make his own. Poetry of every... See more

“Sprezzatura” is the word Richard-Carvajal uses: an Italian term that describes a kind of nonchalance, employed in order to conceal the work and craft behind something that appears effortless.