“Today, Google builds more servers than almost anyone on Earth—and it doesn’t even sell servers.”
“He went into a studio with the Mexican jazz drummer Antonio Sánchez and began recording the soundtrack (almost exclusively percussion) before he’d shot a frame of film, matching the beats with specific lines of dialogue in order to pre-dictate, in Iñárritu’s words, “the pulse of the film.””
Ex Machina – Ava Sessions
wow
I watched a ferry spend 20 minutes traveling 50 yards against the current and ice flow. Crazy.
“But the fee model comes with systematic costs that are not immediately obvious. Here’s the thing: in order for fees to work, there needs be something worth paying to avoid. That necessitates, at some level, a strategy that can be described as “calculated misery.” Basic service, without fees, must be sufficiently degraded in order to make people want to pay to escape it. And that’s where the suffering begins.”
“If we keep throwing only young, mostly white, mostly upper middle class people at the engine that makes our digital world go, we’ll keep getting camera and reminder and hookup apps—things that make an already privileged life even smoother—and we’ll keep producing features that sound like a good idea to everyone in the room, until they unexpectedly stab someone in the heart.”
“At a recent talk I gave at a university, an art/design grad thanked me for saying that it was okay to make money as a creative, because his teachers told him that money was bad and that he should not be afraid to suffer financially for the integrity of his craft. This romanticized model of “the starving artist” has disempowered much of the creative community—it is important to remember that the model is fed by those who are often not starving. Financial independence is grounded in ridding one’s fear of money; money is just a medium.”
— John Maeda
Can’t help myself with UI breakdowns on Huds and Guis
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