Ideas I want to write about

Increasingly believe that the "good, cheap, fast—choose two" maxim is devious misinformation spread by the slow. In my experience, "slow" and "expensive" usually go together. I was in a meeting yesterday where lopping a year off a project schedule also ended up reducing the cost substantially. Fundamentally, it takes... See more

Patrick Collison x.com

To opt out, though, is to be excluded.

Adam Aleksic • how the algorithm keeps you under control

When you recognize that Hardware is part of our nature layer -> so consequentially, our culture is downstream of our hardware...

We Are Afraid To Be Better

“When you read your notebooks, you remeet ideas. You reintroduce them to who you are now.” That’s from writer Max Porter’s interview in the book The Work of Art . (As you may know, I’m a huge believer in the importance of revisiting notebooks.)

Ampersanding

“Why isn’t it an app?” This argument feels like the make change from the inside. We know that’s not how the world works, but it’s hard to see that you’re in water as a fish.

But what’s hanging in the balance is the image-cultural environment of the future. One not dominated by a format monopoly.

In Search of New Software Cultures

from Reggie James

Moodboard (Alex's version)

That sounds fine, wonderful — real nonsense. Do more. More nonsensical, more crazy, more machines, more breasts, penises, cunts, whatever — make them abound with nonsense. Try and tickle something inside you, your “weird humor.” You belong in the most secret part of you. Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world.

Maria Popova • Do: Sol LeWitt’s Electrifying Letter of Advice on Self-Doubt, Overcoming Creative Block, and Being an Artist