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Modernism

In light of these new ideas [discoveries in space, time, language, and human mind], modernist authors and artists of the period began to wonder whether concrete reality and objective truth existed at...

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Designers

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist, and evolutionary strategist.    ~ Wired, R. Buckminster Fuller  

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Fortune Favors the Bold

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray...

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Instinct vs Reason

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.  ~ Theodore Dreiser

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Visual and Statistical Thinking

Display architecture recapitulates quantitative thinking; design quality grows from intellectual quality.  Such dual principles – both for reasoning about statistical evidence and for the design of...

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How to Create a Mind

Both hardware and software are progressing exponentially.  If logical thinking were the essence of intelligence, then computers would already be superior to us.  The area where humans still have an...

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Collective Thinking

In terms of the Internet, it’s like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previously we were more like a… collection of cells that communicated by diffusion. With the advent of the...

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Parenthood

Making a decision to have a child—it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body ~ Elizabeth Stone  

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Apple Design Credo

if everyone   is busy making everything… how can anyone perfect anything? we start to confuse convenience      with joy. …abundance with choice. designing something requires focus. the first thing we...

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Origins

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.    – Herman Melville  

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