Jonathan Quaade

but why did you make it xyz“ because it’s fun, because I like it, because why not, because I can, because it doesn’t matter, because no one can tell me not to, because it felt right, because it makes me happy when I look at it, because i don't need a reason

“For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practise their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them.” – Socrates in Plato’s “Phaedrus”

Current AI creative tools are made by non-creatives for other non-creatives to feel creative.

We’re a team of creatives who founded FLORA to solve our own problem: the lack of creative control in AI.

When I have a piece of writing in mind, what I have, in fact, is a mental bucket: an attractor for and generator of thought. It’s like a thematic gravity well, a magnet for what would otherwise be a mess of iron filings. I’ll read books differently and listen differently in conversations. In particular I’ll remember everything better; everything wi... See more

Opinionated software is worth something, as opinions represent an experience of what works, what produces results. And this is the ultimate value

# the nightmare bicycle imo, the most important idea in product design is to avoid the "nightmare bicycle". imagine a bicycle where the product manager said "people don't get math so we can't have numbered gears - we need to have labeled buttons for gravel mode, downhill mode, ..." this is a hypothetical "nightmare bicycle" that Andy diSessa ima... See more