Not sure I agree
Fascinating, sometimes radical views that I’m undecided between accepting and opposing.
Not sure I agree
No one’s coming to save you: A designer’s unfiltered take on surviving a brutal market
Mindaugas Petrutisopen.substack.com
This post makes the argument that the market has changed, hiring has changed, and if you want to stay competitive you need to do three times (or more) as much work as you were doing so far. Why? To make your design resume and portfolio hyper-relevant, to A/B test versions of those, to practice for interviews by listening to recordings of previous interviews and mentoring answers word for word.
This is crazy. This is less of a lesson for individual candidates to learn and more of a reflection of how unprepared busynesses and hiring departments are with the current candidate pool. How the crazy standards they set and the amount time expected people put in for free. Insane expectations if you ask me.
As someone who’s been in the job market for over a year, I have so much more to write about this imbalance and why it can’t be all put in the hands of candidates to work this out. And it infuriates me that there’s people that just because they made it, because they were those 1/10000 who got the gig, they feel like they’re solved the riddle and get to tell everyone that they riddle is easy if you know what to do. Yet never at any time question if the riddle should exist at all.
There is also no powder, juice cleanse, ginger shot, or lifestyle gummy that will move the dial towards anything other than the growing mountain of plastic in the ocean. If it takes absolutely no work to consume, it will not save your life. Read that a few more times.
Why is Wellness So Fucking Annoying?
As someone who’s currently a part-timer in a supplement store, this hits fucking hard. I know it to be true. But I also know, from colleagues’ stories, that customers do come back happier. Sometimes their ailments have improved partly thanks to what they bought from us. So I don’t know where to stand.
If taking that multivitamin and before-bed gummies feels like it’s helping, it makes you “feel” stronger, or it “feels” like you’re having better sleep. Then who am I to tell you to stop, to reveal that maybe, only maybe, it’s something other than what you’re taking that’s helping. But then again, money rules the game, and people deserve transparency… It’s a hard one to answer.
I’m over writers and entertainers whose entire profit margin is driven by pointing out problematic stuff.
Everything is problematic. I don’t need another hot take to educate me about this.
– Dr Amber Hull
Design education encourages new designers to use design as a tool for social change and sells them on the idea that fancy design methodologies can solve all kinds of problems. It is exhilarating, but everything always stays the same, because the reality is that the system keeps incentivizing companies chasing infinite growth on the back of a planet... See more
Does everything really stay the same though?
Design education encourages new designers to use design as a tool for social change and sells them on the idea that fancy design methodologies can solve all kinds of problems. It is exhilarating, but everything always stays the same, because the reality is that the system keeps incentivizing companies chasing infinite growth on the back of a planet... See more
Does everything really stay the same though?
Isn’t it all real life? Why devalue the time, those 40 or more hours we spent working?
All pretenses aside, Andy Warhol’s quote is the dominant sentiment of our time: “Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.” Making money is a high. Like sex and drugs and gambling and art. That all these activities cluster together at things called “art fairs” is no mistake.
Hardly agree. I don’t think that becoming a bigger well-lubricated cog and turning that wheels of capitalism = being a good artist. But here good is a word I’ve added, as it was never mention. Or could it be this concept of “making money is art” is also true and I just don’t want to believe it?
All pretenses aside, Andy Warhol’s quote is the dominant sentiment of our time: “Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.” Making money is a high. Like sex and drugs and gambling and art. That all these activities cluster together at things called “art fairs” is no mistake.
Hardly agree. Not into the idea that becoming a big, well-lubricated cog in the machine of capitalism = creating art. But could it be that I don’t want to believe that that’s what many famous artists are: successful businesses?
AI is aggregated human intelligence. So it’s better to call it collective intelligence than artificial intelligence.
Emphasizing the collectivity (something built on the commons) over the artificiality (a feat of technology) gives us an entire new way to see, perceive and relate to the technology.
-via Holly Herndon, in conversation with Ezra Klein