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Dec 7, 2022
70 · Zach Kron — Art, Creativity, and Personal Evolution

Zach Kron, senior product manager at Autodesk, on making and selling pen plotter art, evolving with your projects, capturing ideas, and remote work.

1 hr 13 min
Oct 26, 2022
69 · Q&A with Nono — Podcasting Tips

Nono Martínez Alonso shares tips on producing a podcast, building an audience, booking guests, content formats, motivation, and goals.

33 min
Sep 30, 2022
68 · Leire Asensio Villoria and David Mah — Systems Upgrade

Leire Asensio Villoria and David Mah on decoding and upgrading design systems, reverse engineering the creative process, knowledge dissemination, the long tail of niches, Erwin Hauer and associative models, book writing and publishing, and much more.

1 hr 18 min
Jul 29, 2022
67 · Frank Harmon — Writing, Drawing, and Sense of Place

Frank Harmon on the purpose of writing and sketching, what makes great writers, artists, and architects, and the importance of giving people a sense of place.

46 min
Jun 29, 2022
66 · DALL-E 2, The Creative Process, and Blogging Tools

Experiments with OpenAI’s text-to-image generation AI system DALL-E 2, mini-essays on the creative process and being done, and blogging tools you can use.

23 min
May 31, 2022
65 · Sketches — It's Nice to See You, In Person

Thoughts on traveling and meeting people in person after the COVID-19 pandemic.

11 min
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Where to Find the Latest Essays

Hey! If you're wondering where are my new publications, you've come to the right place. For the past years, I've been publishing a weekly newsletter — with a…

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The Luxury of Simplicity

Back in August 2018, Panagiotis Michalatos and I sat down at the back porch of his house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to chat for a couple of hours. Pan, as…

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The Manual and the Guide

There's a subtle difference between the manual and the guide. The manual is meant to tell you how to use and assemble your new gadget—the very function of…

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Who Cares About Your Workflow?

I like to start working in the early morning with the minimum amount of items on my desk. A MacBook Air, a 4K monitor, and a wireless mouse. No matter how…

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What's the Time?

By about 3000 BC the Egyptians had already developed a calendar, and a water clock, the sand clock predecesor, was already in use around 1500 BC, probably to…

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Would the Amish Ride Electric Scooters?

Over the last months, I've been questioning why the streets of my hometown are flooded with electric scooters, at the same time that I keep asking myself…

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The Growth Mindset: How to Measure Your Own Success

Don't do it, measure progress instead. Measure where you were yesterday, where you were seven days ago, and where you were a month ago. Write down all of the…

2 min read

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