If design is strategy made visible, decency is ethics made measurable.

Stop playing janitor in someone else’s disaster. Power doesn’t reward competence—it rewards a narrative. Write yours before someone else does. Ignore everything else. 💡 #fridayprovocation

The light just now. Bueno.

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Whoa! Thanks for the feature.

Good design isn’t about adding more. It’s about knowing what not to build. @davesnyder.bsky.social argues for restraint: solve the one core problem, put in the craft, and let time and user behavior do the work. Read the full story:

The goal isn’t to go viral — it’s to be impossible to replace.

Wrote an article for @designobserver.com on this idea I call “the compound interest of design” which is all about knowing what NOT to build. And that is hard. designobserver.com/the-compound...

Desirability outlives usability.

Evening provocation: AI won’t democratize leadership, it will calcify oligarchy.

Dune aesthetics.

Haters in the comments! I guess I didn’t create anything useful. Oh well 😂 www.creativebloq.com/3d/vibe-codi...

More play.

Having a play.

So do you like grids? Me:

I’m not sure who needs to hear this but If you’re saving your paper school diploma next to a pubic hair removal device that hasn’t been touched in 10 years it’s time to let both go.

They took the em dash from me.

Why such extravagance in bullshit?” Why do we overinvest in nonsense, in grift, in theater—when clarity and decency could’ve scaled so easily?

Sorta love this.

post 4 important albums released the year you turned 18. 1995 for me.

Wait it’s golf season?!

Vibe art directing new portraits. 😂

2010. SoBe at SXSWi. Anyone remember?

The Swiss passport is dope. Yes I’m late. www.designboom.com/design/next-...

All cruelty springs from weakness. - Seneca Indeed.

Nice write up on our latest for the James Beard Foundation from Print Magazine. www.printmag.com/branding-ide...

I may or may not have snuck the Konami code in for an upcoming launch.

Old posters. 2013.

Most people don’t realize just how much of their comfortable, predictable life is propped up by dull, invisible systems they neither understand nor even know exist. It’s the boring stuff that keeps the world from falling apart.

I like ice cream. You like ice cream.

AI can’t replace this

This for any creative task

There is a text message bet behind the scenes about who will be the first trillionaire and all this bullshit unfolding is the byproduct of it. This is my Occam’s razor view.

I like this poster.

Stoked to bring a bit of satire to this Ad Age article "72 ad execs predict 2025 marketing trends—and what they want for the industry’s future." 👀 Lot's of truth can be found in a bit of jest. Some heavy hitters in this piece! adage.com/article/spec...

A single moment of irreverent mockery will dismantle false beliefs more than countless carefully constructed logical arguments.

Nailed that didn’t they.

Huge purge happening at x for me at the moment.

This was peak product design if I’m being honest

How it started. How it ended. ✈️

Have coffee with your friends. Waste hours. Then tell them you love them. Be in each other’s company. And fuck your phone while I’m at it. Then go have a few drinks. Strong drinks. Maybe, too many. You only go around the carousel once and you ain’t taking that RSU package with you.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule it. --- H. L. Mencken

Snow day at the beach.

Actually quite interesting. openai.com/index/elon-m...

Bueno.

Out for a romp. Fire Island, NY. #defender90

Trend alert 🚨 Gen-z love cigarettes. 🚬 Cigs are so back. Seen on a past colleagues photo dump.

Cool packaging alert 🚨 for Flamingo Estate. Not sure who designed it.

Now that’s an envelope. Aicher.