Jonathan Quaade
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Jonathan Quaade
"Genius has the fewest moving parts." – Nick Sleep
The structures for learning are disappearing faster than new ones are forming. Remote work has accelerated this breakdown, erasing the in-person mentorship that came through proximity. Economic pressure has led many teams to skip the slow burn of junior development altogether.
Welcome to the entry-level void: what happens when junior design jobs disappear?
Today’s perma-class of renters moves more frequently than ever before (inevitably to smaller apartments), and on moving day the sidewalks are transformed into a rich bazaar of objects significant for ugliness studies. We stroll past discarded pottery from wild sip ’n’ spin nights; heaps of shrunken fast fashion from Shein; dead Strategist-approved... See more
We very much believe brands first. Often the times the product is that brand for the clients that we work with. People are paying that premium for the brand. But the brands informs everything else, including product, the org chart, including user experience and sales and the obvious stuff, like marketing and the actual branding function. But the
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Jasmine Bina
Jerry Seinfeld:
"You must master waiting. 'Show's gonna be delayed a half hour.' Fine. Plane's gonna be delayed two hours. Fine. Career's gonna be delayed five years, Fine."
he says in our opinion just a few things in life are noble and it is because just a few things are noble that noad has just a few Investments the Church of diversification is seen as an insurance against any one idea being wrong we would propose that if knowledge is a source of value ad and few things can be known for sure then it Li logically
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Just as you are there to nurse the dough in the window it requires to get the result you want. You can’t do steps 1-8 of a recipe, then decide you’re tired, leave it for 2 days and come back to do steps 8-10 hoping for the same result. This sounds so ridiculous you wouldn’t even try it! Because you know it wouldn’t work. And yet this is how many of... See more
Revisit and you must strike when the iron is hot
I do love this baking metaphor. It doesn’t match properly but it’s close enough. You know that when you write or do something you must first create leave it and come back not too long after to review the work, taste adjust remove before doing the final steps. You have to strike while the iron is hot and follow through
think Mars is actually an opportunity to reorient our economy around, uh, fluid and sort of ever-changing identity, and the removal of identity as a fixed construct. I actually think that that is a more abundant economy than the one we're in now because we have to think about how uh, how much creative um, restriction there is due to something not
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Why dont we just do it? and life apathy
This is the kind of restriction I feel that people have on themselves today
Make art, and while everyone is deciding what they think of it, make more art.” — Andy Warhol
Revisit and