Stephen Black

The same face will look mad, sad or excited depending on the angle the actor faces, the gestures made by the actor, and the lighting of the stage.

Email is actually a tremendous, decentralized, open platform on which new, innovative things can and have been built. In that way, email represents a different model from the closed ecosystems we see proliferating across our computers and devices.

The current crisis in the design industry – this race-to-the-bottom pricing and confusion about value – stems precisely from this misunderstanding. When clients treat Design as decoration, they naturally seek the lowest bidder. But when they grasp Design as the methodology for creating desirable change, they understand they're not buying pixels but... See more

Kristin Jackson, CEO of Freespoke, an alternative search engine focused on helping people find the truth faster, told Project Liberty that what she's seeing is that users feel like they might be missing something when searching for information online. “They’re no longer confident in the results,” she said. “They’re wondering, ‘Am I getting the full

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The theater of retail. Charli XCX’s pop-up concerts. Olympic Games. All catered to Gen Z’s tendency to view shopping as one of the top entertainment activities, above playing video games

I really hate the term content creator. It’s such a corporate way of describing artists, writers, intellectuals, and other creatives who ultimately just want to create work they’re proud of.

Part of the problem is that the big social networks are not content platforms supported by advertising. They are better understood as advertising platforms... See more