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What Craft Really Means (and Why It Matters More Than You Think)
When you’re just starting out in design, it’s easy to equate craft with skill. You think it’s about pushing pixels perfectly, mastering Figma, or knowing every shortcut in the book. But here’s…
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Conversation Agent
Using ElevenLabs to create my own conversation agent. Source documents include my resume, various personality tests and portfolio. I thought it might be a nice way for folks to get to know…
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Liquid Reading – Zygmunt Bauman and the Article Reading Experience
Written in collaboration with ChatGPT and Perplexity Listen to this (recorded using my own voice and ElevenLabs) Why this matters I’ve been a big fan of the sociologist and philosopher, Zygmunt Bauman,…
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AGI and the Future of Magazine Publishing
So I asked ChatGPT to tell me about the potential impact of AGI on magazine publishing. With the release of ChatGPT 4 yesterday (described here by the team at OpenAI and here…
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The Tokenization of News
As I was working with The Wall Street Journal last year on their redesign I started to question why and how people interact with the news. When we read the news, what…
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Asking a better question
It doesn’t get better said than in this conversation between John O’Donohue and his friend John Quinn in their book, Walking in Wonder. “One of the most exciting and energetic forms of…
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Sigma Seven
Archaeology now. Back in 1996 I had a design studio with my friend David Oppenheim. This was our digital press kit – on a floppy disk. We worked together for 2…
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Introducing Sift:lab
After much thinking about what clients and their customers need most I’ve decided to launch Sift:lab. It’s a collaborative group of people who will be working with clients who are determined to…
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Creativity as a path
Cultivating awareness of self and others is central to the path of Buddhism but if applied to the path of creativity and design specifically it opens up the possibility of becoming more…
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The Friendly Sniper
My father gave me this bullet. We lived on the top floor of our apartment building in West Beirut during the civil war. We were just a few blocks away from the…
