“You can’t change how you feel. But you can change what you do.” —a friend
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Emotions can overwhelm in hard moments, no matter your experience. But actions are always a choice, even when feelings aren’t.
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Emotions can overwhelm in hard moments, no matter your experience. But actions are always a choice, even when feelings aren’t.
October 6, 2025 at 3:46 AM
“You can’t change how you feel. But you can change what you do.” —a friend
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Emotions can overwhelm in hard moments, no matter your experience. But actions are always a choice, even when feelings aren’t.
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Emotions can overwhelm in hard moments, no matter your experience. But actions are always a choice, even when feelings aren’t.
Success is hard to repeat because what got you there tends to go away once you achieve it.
October 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Success is hard to repeat because what got you there tends to go away once you achieve it.
Ego turns opportunities into actions, while egolessness helps you pick the right ones.
September 21, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Ego turns opportunities into actions, while egolessness helps you pick the right ones.
Visited the Japanese American Museum in Portland today, and got a vocabulary lesson thru the various historical artifacts and writings there about a v recent past here in the US.
August 30, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Visited the Japanese American Museum in Portland today, and got a vocabulary lesson thru the various historical artifacts and writings there about a v recent past here in the US.
The LLM can write better than you, by a standard which others are measured.
But you write better than the LLM, by a standard which you measure yourself.
But you write better than the LLM, by a standard which you measure yourself.
August 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The LLM can write better than you, by a standard which others are measured.
But you write better than the LLM, by a standard which you measure yourself.
But you write better than the LLM, by a standard which you measure yourself.
It is when you have nothing at stake or everything at stake when you are the most creative. It’s a different kind of creativity on either end.
August 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
It is when you have nothing at stake or everything at stake when you are the most creative. It’s a different kind of creativity on either end.
How do we define the value of creative effort during a time when “effortless creative” is becoming the norm? I think we need to appreciate the slow marination of ideas that become subject to many random forces.
August 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
How do we define the value of creative effort during a time when “effortless creative” is becoming the norm? I think we need to appreciate the slow marination of ideas that become subject to many random forces.
Having a place to think without subjecting oneself to extreme noise is a positive direction for me.
August 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Having a place to think without subjecting oneself to extreme noise is a positive direction for me.
Daily life is mostly waiting for good news or bad news. With time, you realize no bad news is the good news you were desperate for.
July 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Daily life is mostly waiting for good news or bad news. With time, you realize no bad news is the good news you were desperate for.
Fixed vs Variable Costs useful.mba/lessons/fixe...
Fixed vs Variable Costs
Understanding how costs behave with scale and finding the path to profitability
useful.mba
July 6, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Fixed vs Variable Costs useful.mba/lessons/fixe...
Tools will keep changing, but our job is to shape the work with humanity and purpose. maeda.pm/2025/04/27/f...
From Reactive Graphics to the Agent Era: Reflections on the Evolution of Design and Code | John Maeda’s Blog
https://vimeo.com/198494483 Looking back at my path through design and technology, I’m often struck by how much the landscape keeps shifting—and how much there is to learn at every turn. In the early ...
maeda.pm
April 27, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Tools will keep changing, but our job is to shape the work with humanity and purpose. maeda.pm/2025/04/27/f...
Artists comfortably work within and with the many enigmas in life—sharing their research as concrete evidence of a different path taken. johnmaeda.medium.com/why-art-stil...
Why Art Still Matters (Especially Now)
Artists comfortably work within and with the many enigmas in life — sharing their research as concrete evidence of a different path taken.
johnmaeda.medium.com
April 23, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Artists comfortably work within and with the many enigmas in life—sharing their research as concrete evidence of a different path taken. johnmaeda.medium.com/why-art-stil...
Simplicity and Agentic Experience johnmaeda.medium.com/simplicity-a...
Simplicity and Agentic Experience (AX)
We find ourselves these days at a fascinating intersection where simplicity and agency are converging. As I’ve explored in my previous work…
johnmaeda.medium.com
April 8, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Simplicity and Agentic Experience johnmaeda.medium.com/simplicity-a...
The Art of Creative Leadership johnmaeda.medium.com/the-art-of-c...
The Art of Creative Leadership
I remember standing in my father’s tofu factory as a child, watching him transform simple ingredients into something nourishing through…
johnmaeda.medium.com
April 7, 2025 at 4:42 AM
The Art of Creative Leadership johnmaeda.medium.com/the-art-of-c...
95% AI-ONLY: I wanted to find a way to compress the info in my ultra-long form video so I tried the new gpt-4o to see what it would create as infographics, and then went down a rabbit hole to create a short video. It definitely got the general "information shape" correct
youtube.com/shorts/RfYVk...
youtube.com/shorts/RfYVk...
2025 Design in Tech Report 95% AI Video 1
YouTube video by John Maeda: Design & AI
youtube.com
March 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
95% AI-ONLY: I wanted to find a way to compress the info in my ultra-long form video so I tried the new gpt-4o to see what it would create as infographics, and then went down a rabbit hole to create a short video. It definitely got the general "information shape" correct
youtube.com/shorts/RfYVk...
youtube.com/shorts/RfYVk...
Tokens that span words versus just parts of them 👉 superbpe.github.io
March 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Tokens that span words versus just parts of them 👉 superbpe.github.io
2025 #DesignInTech Report in super long form is up on Tuesday: Autodesigners on Autopilot
youtu.be/mMcVKWCQmv8
youtu.be/mMcVKWCQmv8
2025 Design in Tech Report (Unedited): Autodesigners on Autopilot
YouTube video by John Maeda: Design & AI
youtu.be
March 17, 2025 at 7:17 AM
2025 #DesignInTech Report in super long form is up on Tuesday: Autodesigners on Autopilot
youtu.be/mMcVKWCQmv8
youtu.be/mMcVKWCQmv8
Most new, interesting design trends are reruns. Some improve on the original, others just have better FX.
Originality is a wonderful delusion—sometimes it leads to a timely twist, sometimes to a successful remix (see Lessig).
Originality is a wonderful delusion—sometimes it leads to a timely twist, sometimes to a successful remix (see Lessig).
February 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Most new, interesting design trends are reruns. Some improve on the original, others just have better FX.
Originality is a wonderful delusion—sometimes it leads to a timely twist, sometimes to a successful remix (see Lessig).
Originality is a wonderful delusion—sometimes it leads to a timely twist, sometimes to a successful remix (see Lessig).
- Earning the badge of high craft comes from the deep respect one maker has for another maker's work.
- Appreciating crafted experiences and objects is about empathy. It requires understanding the creator's journey, especially when your own making experiences resonate with or match their process.
- Appreciating crafted experiences and objects is about empathy. It requires understanding the creator's journey, especially when your own making experiences resonate with or match their process.
February 15, 2025 at 11:34 PM
- Earning the badge of high craft comes from the deep respect one maker has for another maker's work.
- Appreciating crafted experiences and objects is about empathy. It requires understanding the creator's journey, especially when your own making experiences resonate with or match their process.
- Appreciating crafted experiences and objects is about empathy. It requires understanding the creator's journey, especially when your own making experiences resonate with or match their process.
I-assisted software dev can encourage laziness, but it can also push you to be more ambitious. Getting to a goal within the expected timeframe has become easier. At the same time, reaching for higher, riskier goals within the same timeframe has also become more achievable. The latter point is key.
January 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I-assisted software dev can encourage laziness, but it can also push you to be more ambitious. Getting to a goal within the expected timeframe has become easier. At the same time, reaching for higher, riskier goals within the same timeframe has also become more achievable. The latter point is key.
Hikaru Utada’s Science Fiction Tour is available on Prime and one of the most beautiful shows I have ever seen on many dimensions — esp the ending. youtu.be/jiJTBW6kGC4?...
宇多田ヒカル「traveling」(HIKARU UTADA SCIENCE FICTION TOUR 2024)
YouTube video by Hikaru Utada
youtu.be
December 20, 2024 at 3:37 PM
Hikaru Utada’s Science Fiction Tour is available on Prime and one of the most beautiful shows I have ever seen on many dimensions — esp the ending. youtu.be/jiJTBW6kGC4?...
Helped vs Hugged vs Heard youtu.be/lg48Bi9DA54?...
December 1, 2024 at 1:47 PM
Helped vs Hugged vs Heard youtu.be/lg48Bi9DA54?...
Courage is knowing danger and taking it on; audacity is ignoring the situation and jumping in. (From 2011 — when I was peak audacious :-)
November 30, 2024 at 1:02 PM
Courage is knowing danger and taking it on; audacity is ignoring the situation and jumping in. (From 2011 — when I was peak audacious :-)