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Brand equity is not an asset but rather a finite resource.

There’s a difference between explanation that supplements a design and explanation that substitutes for it.

Not every car should be a tech object. Some should still be sculpture.

Design thinking is a conversation in your own head. Most of it never gets written down.

@emm0sh Words approximate, equations define.

a CAD model is worth 10,000 words

@soleio Or perhaps machines may perceive more of God’s patterns than we can?

We may need to accept that our machines will perceive God more clearly than we do

@daveg A family tree of tools, but also a family tree of possible futures. The next 13 should be interesting from here

I've taken this idea to create 13 steps from a flint axe to ASML's chip lithography machines interactive.davidgalbraith.org/toolgenealogy/

The equivalent of the genes for human culture are tools, not the artifacts they create, which are analogous to the phenotype. For this reason I'm interested in a family tree of tools, the tools that made the tools that made the tools.

A tool should restore agency, not dissolve it.

Constraint gives imagination its edges.

Post AI, so much is regenerated on demand and then evaporates. Output is up, but knowledge now accumulates in models not humans.

Car design has shifted from the sculpture of primary forms to the surfaces of secondary gestures.

@tfadell Essential graduation toolkit…this reminder to keep questioning , and a copy of Build. Thank you for writing it, A great practical resource in a world of theory.

Graduates 1) congratulations!!! 2) a reminder not to lose the ability to ask obvious questions! When we were kids we did this naturally as we were learning to understand the world around us. We asked why things work the way they do. Then we become adults and stop asking. We normalize bad experiences, broken systems, unnecessary complexity, and products that frustrate us every day. Many of the best companies and products come from people who never fully accepted that’s just the way it is. The iPod came from questioning why I had to carry around all my music...it was annoying and clunky. Nest came from questioning why thermostats were so poorly designed despite being in every home. Innovation often starts with noticing things other people have stopped seeing. Stay curious. Notice friction. Question assumptions. And don’t let expertise kill your sense of wonder. * 📸 yep that's me. My first real world job after @UMich see at @generalmagicmov I was persistent until I got the job, thanks Dee Gardetti 🙏

@torquespeak This is downstream of the phone becoming everyone’s default interface. People are just getting what they’re used to looking at.

Once again I say: "mid-range gaming mouse". Why can't manufacturers find a way out of this design rut? And before anyone says "supercar should be like a fighter jet", this is NOTHING like a jet. The car with a cabin most like an F-35 is probably the Ineos Grenadier. Seriously.

Taste isn’t what you point at. It’s what you decide while making.

@ObsoleteSony The ritual, the mechanical sense of it still being the future…a laser bouncing off a spinning disc…

What keeps you listening to CDs in 2026?

There are almost as many atoms in the universe as there are ways to confuse the space of possibilities with the space of realities.

@musitoban I shoot an Olympus E-1 for this very reason too, it offers a look that is hard to achieve “in camera” nowadays

@cpxid ピクセルのピッチが大きい、古いCCD機だからこその良さがあります。

初代5Dとかいう1万円台で買えるプロ用デジタル一眼、発売から20年経ってもまだまだイケる！！

@tobi In some ways then, AI is a trade of the mind, not the hand?

Every AI interaction is still capped by the users ability to express intent, even if the AI is agentic.