Anna Santiago

a company dies once the funny people leave

I really love seeing content like this from the music industry. AI should amplify human creativity not replace it. share.google/P31xIa0BbGTXmq…

The amount of screenshots, movs, files, etc that Claude is cleaning up on my desktop is appalling. I would never have cleaned it up. Probably just thrown my computer out the window if someone made me do it. Now that I have a system, can I maintain it without Claude?

@Google @khanacademy I love this for me

We're partnering with @KhanAcademy to bring a suite of Gemini-powered learning and literacy tools to students, starting with the Writing Coach tool. Writing Coach doesn’t generate answers or deliver a finished product — it walks students through the process of outlining, drafting and refining their own ideas. #BettUK2026

@clairevo Really just want Claude cowork to clean up my 1000s of screenshots.

am i agi

@jgebbia This reminds me a of the Federal Art Project and the all the posters thereafter. Nice work!

Based on popular demand, you can now purchase a limited edition poster series of the New Pyramid. Enjoy: ndstudio.gov/shop

@AdamWhitcroft Moving to designing in cursor just makes more sense because it eliminates all the unnecessary grunt work to make layouts current. What is everyone doing with their figma files? Are they ephemeral artifacts that live and die with PRDs?

It feels like the days of Figma as the source of truth for design are numbered. I think there's still a use case for initial direction setting / mood exploration, but I just don't see a strong case for keeping those monolithic files of an entire product area up to date anymore.

The felt stop motion art of Andrea Love

I enjoy what I do but going back to the grind of checking emails, schedule, and constant communication is making me a weee bit anxious!

@Brieyonce I have seen evidence of this. When I visit the library, most adult patrons tend to be over 70 or parents with kids.

Back to work 2026... Things I forgot after the holidays: 1- Laptop password 2- Where I saved the final_final_v7 deck 3- What the project is actually about 4- What I promised your manager and client before the break 5- How to find motivation to wake up in the morning

idk who needs to hear this but january is all about rest and hibernation. february is all about self-romance and love. march is when we prepare for the new year and april is when we spring into big action.

It sounds like her parents liked parenting

This is going to stick with me forever

I admire the intention and think this RFP is predicated on an instructive misunderstanding Bauhaus was not an aesthetic, but a new school of thought. They changed the ambitions of art and pedagogy, and (incidentally) beautiful and strange things emerged. That is why it was radical and successful. The root of this misunderstanding is why it often doesn’t feel like we have new aesthetics. We do, but they fall far short of the high ambitions of the modernists. The incentives of the attention economy have produced new aesthetics and rituals that would look alien to anyone last century. Slop is a very new aesthetic. Fluorescent streamer caves are new. Body horror Botox influencers are new. The extent to which we are dissatisfied with them is the extent to which we feel the governing logic of our culture is perverse. The opportunity is to fund new schools of thought with a new ambition for art (I have ideas). There are no shortcuts but ample opportunities. If understood they will really be onto something.

i love the ambition behind projects like these that try to define “the next aesthetic.” it speaks to a hunger for coherence in a moment where culture feels extremely fragmented. the challenge is that aesthetics aren’t created by intention alone. they’re emergent properties of material conditions, technologies, social affect, and economic incentives. you can name them, influence them, or amplify them — but you can’t centrally plan them. in earlier eras, a small group could define a visual language because society was structured around shared constraints: limited media channels, unified production methods, fewer subcultures, slower cycles. today we operate in a massively multi-polar environment. the internet makes aesthetic formation bottom-up and swarm-driven. styles now emerge through countless micro-experiments, niche communities, algorithmic feedback loops, and shifting affective climates. culture is a complex system and aesthetics are emergent equilibria within it. to engineer a new aesthetic would be like engineering a new oceanic current or weather pattern — not to mention underestimating the vast intelligence of the Cultural Supercomputer. it’s like trying to centrally plan prices instead of letting the market arrive at an equilibrium. any aesthetic that actually becomes dominant will do so because it crystallizes something people already feel — exhaustion with overload, longing for solidity, fascination with the synthetic, whatever. it has to resonate affectively before it coheres visually. in my opinion, the more fruitful angle isn’t “what aesthetic should we choose next?” but rather “what pressures, desires, and constraints are already shaping what people create — and how might those be influenced?” i think that today, in a collectively created culture, aesthetics can only emerge bottom-up, not be prescribed top-down. they surface from lived conditions long before anyone names them. the real value of a project like this is helping us perceive those shifts -- not declaring the next style, but clarifying the forces that will eventually give rise to it.

@patrickc These submissions are going to be so good. You should make the short list public.

A Call for New Aesthetics: newaesthetics.art.

@corporatedudes This is so funny

Me pretending to work during the void of December 23rd to January 5th

Did you know that every night at 11:57 all 92 digital displays in Times Square switch to a 3 minute digital art display? It’s called Midnight Moment and the shows go back to 2012. It is a sight to see. For the month of December they are showcasing artist Jen Stark’s Drip Cascade. Absolutely amazing! 📍Times Square, NYC

@geoffintech Do you have scheduled releases?

At Ramp we ship a new major feature every day - it's impossible for leaders stay up to speed. To keep a high bar without slowing folks down, teams can ship to early access tier whenever they want but need review for general release. Crazy fact: 10% of customers opt into early access because they can't get enough. That's 5000+ businesses. Plenty to work with. To release to general public, teams need to prove this product works and get sign off for heads of eng, product and design. Here is our template: 1. What did we build and why 2. What's the demo in < 3mn (loom) 3. Did we meet our goals in early access (hex dash) 4. Are customers raving about this (LLM on Zendesk tickets, Sprig surveys, and Gong transcripts) 5. Will customers easily discover and start using it (first time user journey) 6. Is sales ready to sell, AM ready to activate, and support ready to troubleshoot 7. Do we have a clear rollout plan (launch tier, pricing, coms) This helps us document decisions, serves as a strong checklist, and feeds our release notes. Most importantly, it keeps the bar high (we expect at least 1 rev of feedback). The best part: most of this template is automated using AI connected to the rest of our business sytems. Leadership has 48h to review or it ships. We think it's a great way to balance speed & empowerment with process and quality.