Shorter posts of links and sources of interest published more frequently.
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‘My Product Design Process’ by Thu Le. I really like the ‘connect, correct & connect the dots’ of this process.
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High passion, low attachment […] from that comes lightness. Matt Webb writes an insightful and helpful assessment of his Kickstarter campaign for the Poem 1. Four ways I made my (successful) Kickstarter harder than necessary.
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Designer & Artist Michael Vizzina shows a mesmerizing Time-lapse making-of video of him creating a character for the Birmingham, AL ten city block urban artwork project. It doesn’t hurt the song he chose is brilliant too.
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From the NYT: Riken Yamamoto, whose understated buildings quietly emphasize community and connectivity, has been awarded this year’s Pritzker Prize, architecture’s highest honor.
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I’m trying so hard to not purchase all the remaining limited edition artworks: Disorder, Chris Ashworth. The first book dedicated to the career of a truly hands-on graphic designer, charting his ‘Swiss Grit’ approach from the influential Ray Gunmagazine in the 1990s, through to his experimental type projects of the present day
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I’m really looking forward to Yehwan Song‘s Screen Walk on 06/03/2024. Song will be premiere a poem based web performance about private and public space in contemporary internet culture. You can register here for the performance.
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Laurie Anderson on making an AI chatbot of Lou Reed: ‘I’m totally, 100%, sadly addicted’ Anderson had been working with University of Adelaide’s Australian Institute for Machine Learning in 2020.
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“He died doing what he loved, largely because he never did anything else.” Quite a fun story: The bizarre life and legacy of Paul Erdős, the most prolific mathematician ever
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Since I came across low← tech magazine some years ago I’ve always wanted to build very low energy use web sites. Visit Low ← tech magazine here, if it’s online right now.
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Oh I do love this: Things I Don’t Know About AI The more I learn about AI markets, the less I think I know. I list questions and some thoughts. From the very smart Elad Gil.
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From the UK Guardian: Japanese scientists have created one of the world’s most unusual spacecraft – a tiny satellite that is made of timber. (I’m not suggesting this is a good idea… but interesting.)
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From the brilliant & productive Matt Webb: “Hey I made an app! It’s a green floating arrow that always points to the middle of the Milky Way.” and, “BUT: I don’t know how to write apps. And yet here we are! Let me explain.” Read the explanation here.
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A wonderful moment in GUI and computing history from XEROX PARC in the 70s, demonstrated by my father, featuring briefly: me. Watch the video from the Computer History Museum here.
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Kottke covers the big news from OpenAI today: The Age of Realistic AI-generated video is here.
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Steve Portigal is back with his podcast: Dollars to Donuts. This new episode is with guest Noam Segal. “AI will help us see opportunities for research that we haven’t seen.”
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A new ‘trailer’ from the Santa Fe Institute on its Emergent Political Economies project. Watch it here: SFI Emergent Political Economies 2024
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“I’m not sugesting we all start using Danien Newman’s Design Squiggle — but…” Interesting piece on process diagrams by Dan Ramsden, The limitations of the double diamond.
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Nvidia’s chatbot makes your files a local large-ish language model combined with YouTube. I may have to buy a PC to try this. Nvidia’s Chat with RTX is a promising AI chatbot that runs locally on your PC.
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Geo engineering may be closer than we think, or like. Someone is going to dim the sun, and it will be soon. Via TLDR
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What practices have the best learning effect in what context? A recent paper in developmental neuroscience, by Van Der Weel and Van Der Meer: Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity: a high-density EEG study with implications for the classroom
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José Torre’s talk on The Design Process is a Lie. Is something I absolutely have to refer to from here.
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There’s much to share about this, but Kottke introduces Stinge Watching. Do you do it too?
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A thoroughly enjoyable trip down memory lane of smart terminals. Smart Terminals: Personal Computing’s True Origin?