Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
Nerd
Brad Barrish
bradbarrish.com
To test an idea, you must build it. You can’t rely on the abstract – you have to bring it into the world to play with it feel it and only then can you judge whether it’s worth pursuing or not
Christa Nicholson • The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
From Richard Feynman’s 1974 commencement address at CalTech. It’s pretty amazing how relevant this still is, perhaps even more so!
2024 Memo
Toolhouse's 2024 memo outlines their mission to develop a personal product generator that empowers users to create custom, personalized 3D objects through the integration of AI and agile production methods.
toolhouse.build
I love/hate the idea of our environment making up for our lack of self-control.
Very Online People and Web Ex Point Oh
I am very excited about this podcast (h/t Andy Baio)
These guys make the Ghost Tote for Benjamin Edgar and have lots of cool, short-run bags and EDC stuff. Technical, but nerdy.
But what if the coming revolution is a silent one that will be led by those who, in the face of this increasing activity and ear-splitting noise, choose the anti-mimetic path? Who grow quieter and more intentional?
Luke Burgis • The Case for Silence
We are very fluent in blunt, materialistic, capitalist questions: What? How soon? How much? What I hope that we can learn to do is add questions of moral imagination to that mix: questions like “Why?” and “To what human effect?” and “How much is enough?”