Damn
Stuff I either 1) felt, like physically shaken by or 2) couldn’t imagine another human being saw in the same way (read: someone read my mind)
Damn
Why We Want Robots at Work but Humans in Art
We hate other people when latency becomes intolerable. As soon as a task is about speed, other humans feel like an irritating inconvenience. The Uber driver’s small talk annoys us. We wish we were in a Waymo. The cashier’s tip screen feels like a micro-ransom when all we want is a bottle of water. Elevato... See more
We hate other people when latency becomes intolerable. As soon as a task is about speed, other humans feel like an irritating inconvenience. The Uber driver’s small talk annoys us. We wish we were in a Waymo. The cashier’s tip screen feels like a micro-ransom when all we want is a bottle of water. Elevato... See more
Why We Want Robots at Work but Humans in Art
have no words to describe how accurate this is
Practically every person who graduates from art school will be forced to professionally reinvent themselves as something other than an artist. Because of this, the process of quitting art has been enshrined in the art world as its own respectable genre. This allows professional failure to be normalized so that nothing has to change in an art world ... See more
Unfortunately stating the obvious, but finally
One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.
Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.
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Any damn fool can make it complex. It takes a genius to make it simple
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
Most stakeholders I've worked with think they have all the talent and intuition of an S tier designer, they just can't be bothered to learn the tool. So they treat designers like a peripheral. That irks me the most about design.
She Regrets Graphic Design
A comment under this Zimri Mayfield video. Says it all. What’s frustrated me the most working with the majority of mu past clients and employers but I haven’t been able to verbalise.
This is choice paralysis. Previous generations didn’t have many options so they stuck together through hard times and made it work. Now, abundance (or its illusion) has led people to feel less satisfied. People are now more anxious about making a choice and less certain that the one they made was correct.
I’m not really a poet or a writer or an actor or an activist; I’m me, and these are things that I do.
— John Trudell
I avoid labelling myself and it feels liberating to hear that others have found a way to express that which is so well said
A recent study found that e-bike riders, on average, get more exercise than riders of traditional (acoustic?) bicycles.
How can that be?
By amplifying the rider’s effort, the e-bike takes its rider further, faster. The rider who goes further, faster ultimately rides more than their unassisted counterpart. Their heart, lungs, and muscles grow stronger... See more
How can that be?
By amplifying the rider’s effort, the e-bike takes its rider further, faster. The rider who goes further, faster ultimately rides more than their unassisted counterpart. Their heart, lungs, and muscles grow stronger... See more
A perspective (and an example) I hadn’t considered until now
The thing is, you probably have all the information you need already, you just can't bring yourself to sit down and listen to it, so you just keep chain-smoking podcasts and youtube videos, never really thinking, knowing deep down that the answers you seek are in the silence you're avoiding
Totally agree, but also is me saving this just another “here’s the answer I needed?”