Francesco
@fran
Francesco
I’m not a complete person and I don’t want to write from that place. I’m still incomplete, why force myself to speak from the pedestal of someone who has all the answers and has learned to steer clear of ambiguity?
How simple can my job description be? But also, talking about defining my job description in the first place, I’m thinking why define it in the first place? How do you get clear on the labels that feel good to you vs the labels that other people might use to define your job.
Because businesses, especially creative ones, wither under conditions of self-erasure. Creativity cannot thrive in a starved vessel. Liberation cannot emerge from a punished body. When we design, lead, or create from a place of deprivation or performance, the work becomes brittle. When we create from nourishment, presence, and embodiment, the work... See more
Our 2026 Anti-Trend Report
The work becomes alive. What does that mean?
A lot of people have the ability to make something with Canva but not something good and often they can’t tell they’ve made something bad. So there are a lot of bad graphics made in Canva. Design is skill set independent of just being able to use software. Just because you have the ability to make the background light green and the text light blue... See more
Why do people hate Canva Designers??
Basically swap “graphic design” with seating plans and this remains true
Fully immerse yourself in digital "life," and timelines will flatten into unconnected dots, rendering a person present-oriented and unable to either remember or plan well. That permanently "zoned out" person will become easy prey for the next demagogue with an attractive promise and a mesmerizing spectacle.
Adam Garfinkle • The Erosion of Deep Literacy
Cruel optimism, social media and big tech
How distracted users turn into easy prey for those looking to overturn democracy
Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet
GOOD BONES
Life is short, though I keep this from my children.
Life is short, and I've shortened mine
in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,
a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
I'll keep from my... See more
instagram.comthere’s something larger going on, particularly with those of us who’ve been posting for most of our adult lives: on Tumblr, on Facebook, on Twitter, on Snapchat, on Instagram. We’re exhausted with the labor of self-documentation — especially when it seems that our posts aren’t even surfacing for our close friends. But we’re also tired of being... See more
Anne Helen Petersen • Posting Less
Tu sei il mattino by Lucio Corsi on Apple Music
music.apple.comNot marketing but art: a brilliant music video