Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up.
Start with the doorknob. Once you become a doorknob expert, you can move on to becoming a room expert, a door expert, a window expert. Make connections, and you can become an expert on how public spaces can foster community interaction, or how city design can alleviate congestion.
In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
IDEA (intuition, design, emotion, art). “Innovation must also be IDEA led. This is territory of meaningful and more thoughtful, or slow, advances. It’s about reflection, the human domain, and how we relate to change.” - Maeda
I think a good way to figure out your passions are to look at what you do when you’re procrastinating from everything else)
We’ve invented ourselves. And it’s our greatest invention so far. - kevin kelly
reduce everything you want to do to an action you can do right now. Jason randal
that it will never come again is what makes life so sweet
Even in our analog social circles, why not conceive of self-initiated neo-education events and environments for young adults, an intersection of dinner parties and college classes where we watch a Stanford lecture about Darwin’s legacy, then discuss it over a glass of wine?