✨ Where great ideas come from

one of my favorite parts about living in the heart of nyc is the ability to walk literally everywhere. i usually walk ~25k steps every single day—it is one of the best methods for thinking & re-thinking (along with long showers). most ppl do not acknowledge this huge upside of nyc living enough.

If you think the next big idea in your field will come from inside the field, you're probably wrong. https://t.co/hx6gG2jGi3

how to make something people want https://t.co/hgO9oMisfz

Invest 30 minutes of that in building your vision for the future. That's just 2% of your day, but if you do it for a year, that vision may become your reality.

• Read or write


• Build a prototype


• Meet one new person


• Learn a new skill

The idea of putting things in a box just doesn’t work for me. It worked for a generation that was supposed to be where they are. My story starts from immigrant parents from Ghana in West Africa. On the will of my dad making it to America, I was afforded the range of options opposite from a third world country.

Being an outsider allowed Abloh to appr... See more

Abloh’s approach was often to make a small “3% “change to the original form. He wasn’t changing something by 3% just to change it by 3%, though. He was adding his personal 3% touch (in a world of generative AI, I really want to emphasize the personal touch aspecthere).

My favourite example of Abloh's approach was a collaboration with Nike on “The T... See more

It's important to recognize we're in the lineage of art movements...I'm sure...you're trying to challenge yourself to invent something new. Try to be so avant-garde, that has zero [connection to the past]. That's impossible...We exist off the backs of many other things in iterations before us. So once you think about us as a collective, you then re

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• LLMs are reading companions. When Patel is reading a book, he uses LLMs to understand concepts that he isn’t familiar with, like the nuances of White’s argument about how the stirrup created feudalism. “There's a bunch of stuff that's confusing...on these kinds of questions. The author is dead...but I can always continue the conversation with Clau

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In a pre-AI world, in order to build an application, you needed to reduce your idea to a process—a set of rules by which your software would operate to accomplish the goal you set. Sometimes this was easy; for example, a customer relationship manager like Salesforce is naturally reducible to rules.

In a post-AI world, you can build applications for ... See more