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✨Jane ✨

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✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · Feb 23

Join the Ad Pub Reading Club for Book 2: The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Part 1: Pages 01-224
Complete by March 21, 2025

Week of March 24: Share favorite area of thought on 🦋Bluesky with #AdPubReading

Discussion date to follow.

sites.google.com/view/ad-pub-...

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 5h

www.fastcompany.com/91422116/rob...

Robert De Niro and Al Pacino reunite ... for a fashion campaign

The luxury brand Moncler tapped the dynamic duo to celebrate friendship and warmth as it immerses itself deeper in the creative world.

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✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 5h

Unqualified consultants are epidemic in this era.

a bbc three advertisement with a man on it

ALT: a bbc three advertisement with a man on it

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✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 1d

“Good art is inefficient. Good community is inefficient, too.”

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 1d

“The promise of AI is that it removes friction. It doesn’t matter whether it can actually fulfill that promise, it matters that the sovereign wealth funds with seemingly infinite pockets and patience for Sam Altman’s megalomania believe it can.”

phirephoenix.com/blog/2025-10...

choosing friction

In 2018, legal scholar Tim Wu wrote in the New York Times that: Today’s cult of convenience fails to acknowledge that difficulty is a constitutive feature of human experience. Convenience is all desti...

phirephoenix.com

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 1d

These Inclusive Design Principles are about putting people first. It's about designing for the needs of people with permanent, temporary, situational, or changing disabilities — all of us really.

inclusivedesignprinciples.info

Inclusive Design Principles

inclusivedesignprinciples.info

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Tien @wtftien.bsky.social · 1d

I see that the word “empathy” is making the rounds, and that is a grim sign.

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 2d

Yes true.

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone has lost their patience. Especially in business.

kottke.org @kottke.org · 2d

“The smartest design move isn’t chasing trends, it’s planting the tree and letting time do the work,” writes Dave Snyder. “Trees don’t pay off tomorrow. They pay off in a decade. They compound quietly, making everything around them better…” [designobserver.com]

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 2d

The fact that there’s a Boss’ day is ridiculous

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 2d

“Managed well, that tension creates heat. And heat creates light…the kind of work that actually breaks through.

Without it? You don’t have alignment. You have apathy dressed up as consensus.”

findingconnection.substack.com/p/friction-c...

Friction Creates Fire

Why Creative Tension Isn't the Enemy

findingconnection.substack.com

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 2d

An incredibly expensive media takeover.

kottke.org @kottke.org · 2d

Humans of New York has taken over all of Grand Central Terminal for a huge art installation called Dear New York. “For the first time possibly ever, there is not a single ad to be seen in Grand Central Terminal.” [news.artnet.com]

‘Humans of New York’ Transforms Grand Central Into a Monumental Photo Show

Brandon Stanton, creator of “Humans of New York,” has launched New York’s largest public art installation since “The Gates” at Grand Central.

news.artnet.com

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 2d

Yes

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Theo Priestley @tprstly.com · 4d

OpenAI filming their adverts instead of using their own AI tool to make them should tell you everything.

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 5d

New book: Homecoming by Yaa Gyasi

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 6d

The amount of facelifts/cosmotology work seems on the rise.

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 6d

I have always taken notes in a notebook. I remember it better and it’s nice to be able to take a break from screens.

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 7d

🤣

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Liz Climo @lizclimo.bsky.social · 7d

Top: a red panda hesitates to carve a jack o lantern. Hedgehog asks “are you going to carve that pumpkin?” Red panda replies “I dunno. I feel kinda bad stabbing it in the face.” Bottom: red panda and pumpkin cuddle under a blanket with hot cocoa and a spooky book. Panda has drawn a happy face onto the pumpkin with a sharpie.

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 8d

an elderly woman says it 's been 84 years ...

ALT: an elderly woman says it 's been 84 years ...

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✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 8d

On the need for tension in the creative process
open.substack.com/pub/findingc...

Friction Creates Fire

Why Creative Tension Isn't the Enemy

open.substack.com

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 8d

Cannot tell is my nausea is due to:
1) that time of the month
2) something I ate
3) state of things

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 8d

Thai yellow curry and my mouth is humming from the spice.

a man says we gotta spice it up in a kitchen

ALT: a man says we gotta spice it up in a kitchen

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✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 9d

At least that means you're getting some engagement on your posts? 🤷‍♀️

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 9d

Would there be more or less war if men suffered through menstruation?

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 9d

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