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Ideas in your zone of genius
Design has evolved to meet the challenge of the new relationship between people and the material goods they need. Today, designers — artisans, manufacturers, engineers, architects — think far beyond the way things look. Comparing pre-industrial design to post-industrial design with a picture is absurd. Critiquing a modern object based on its appear... See more
Beauty in the machine: post-industrial design
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Ideas evolve gradually over years and decades into their final shape. The new form has many micro decisions behind it
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Obsession > Talent
Consumer demand for smaller scale and human-crafted versions of everything will grow in an AI world. While the future of work might lend itself to small business creation, let’s ****not forget the demand side of the equation. We are going to crave artisanal and story-driven sources and experiences. Why? As every big company floods the zone of our a... See more
Scott Belsky • The Era of Scaling Without Growing & the Meaning Economy
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AI might drive growth of more 'artisanal entrepreneurs'
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Writing refines your thinking
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Six neurotransmitters make up life. Need to focus on all of them to ensure overall happiness and flow
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Natural aptitude x Deep interest
Once again I was struck by one of the miracles of the cognitive process—that the act of writing will summon from the buried past exactly what we need exactly when we need it. Memory and intuition and chance associations will always generate a certain percentage of what any writer writes. The remainder is generated by reason.
William Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
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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
Trung Phan • 9 Creative Lessons From Virgil Abloh
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The importance of an outsider perspective