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Signals #003: Courtesy, Character, and the Collapse of Distinction
When everything becomes the same, what do our habits preserve? This week's articles explore how small repeated behaviors—politeness to machines, performative identity, brand signaling, algorithmic mimicry—either maintain meaningful distinctions or accelerate their collapse.
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Closer, Not Higher
The conventional wisdom says design leaders graduate from the details — but I think AI is about to prove the opposite: the work, increasingly, is to get closer.
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An Old, Restless Wish
Prediction has become the dominant register of the modern internet, but the appetite that drives it is older than the platforms.
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Signals #002: The Frame vs. The Framer
As machines master every frame we give them, what remains irreducibly human?
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Cynicism is a luxury; hope is a necessity.
One’s ability to ignore politics is a product of functional system that shares your worldview.
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Signals #001: The Politics of Naming
When we name something, we claim power over it. This week's articles explore how labels—from aesthetic categories to font choices to compression artifacts—don't just describe culture, they actively shape it, often serving political ends while pretending neutrality.
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Red-lining AI
Why blanket AI bans mistake the tool for the problem, and how thoughtful integration of automation, ethics, and creative work offers a better path forward.
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Earning Attention
Most designers spend 80% of their effort crafting a message and 20% earning it attention. That's backward.
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Craft is Untouchable
AI doesn't threaten craft—the temptation to skip iteration does.
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Local AI and Single-Function Devices
What if AI follows the path of music recording technology?
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Making and Machines
Craft provides an education that cannot be shortcut by even the best technology.
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Is there an AI garage startup path?
Foundation models are becoming infrastructure—and that changes everything about who can compete and how.
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Modern wealth is a parlour game played by the well fed
Market crashes aren't accidents—they're board-clearing strategies that consolidate power while the rest of us lose everything.
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Link – Second Story
Second Story was an interactive studio founded in 1994, since acquired by Razorfish. This is a snapshot of their site from 2013.
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"Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." — Laurie Anderson
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Recycle Bin
upside down, glitch text, faces underneath it all. (18 Images)
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The Productive Afterward
JA Westenberg's essay on the merits of optimism is a helpful reminder.
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In But Not Of
On isolation as vantage point, witness as purpose, and making a home at the edges. What I've learned to recognize and accept as a designer and technologist thanks to science fiction.
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Consistency is Primitive
When AI becomes infrastructure and software becomes bespoke, the economic imperative for standardization disappears.
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Catching Up
Process, process, and process some more. Then print it out. (30 Images)
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Biggest Website Update in Years
Updated design, entirely new theme, hopefully better.
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Progress Without Disruption
There's nothing about progress that inherently requires disruption — except our inability to cooperate for stability.
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The Decision Before the Work
What happens when the most consequential design decision is made before you even get started?
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Replication Is Not Innovation
AI's efficiency gains don't justify trillion-dollar valuations.
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Fifteen Clocks
On clocks as interfaces to time, and a decade measured in rotations of a single hand.
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Disruption, or Theft?
We consented to Uber's terms and conditions. When did we consent to AI?
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What AI is Really For
Best case: we're in a bubble. Worst case: the people profiting most know exactly what they're doing.
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The Last Invention
Achievement has nothing on ambition, and the new almost always falls short of imagination.
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The Fundamentals Problem
Anyone can make something that looks designed, but that doesn't mean that design has happened.
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The National Design Studio is a Scam
Joe Gebbia has no business designing government services.
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Doing (and Directing) Great Design Requires Detail Obsession
Every great design has one organizing detail that unlocks everything else, and the best design leaders never stop looking for it.
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