“Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.”

― Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

Shockingly, in 2020, I was invited to speak at MIT. Bubiko, at that time, was a raggedy paper doll that I moved around with wire. She symbolized the potential of AR, Augmented Reality. My partner and I were very very poor, with plenty of hope and uncertainty. Investors call a billion dollar company a unicorn. For my talk, I decided upon the title o

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.

Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.