Designer in San Francisco.
There’s an issue of The New York Times’ The Morning newsletter that I saved from earlier in the year. The intro, by Melissa Kirsch, talks about doing the harder thing first so that you’ll have an easier time later. Illustration: María Jesú
Code has always felt like a natural creative medium to me. Maybe it’s that I went to school for engineering, not art or design. The OpenAI Gradient : Year in Review 2020 When an idea is defined by a set of rules, you can generate endless variations, dial in
Two coyotes.
When I visited my childhood home last year, I brought back a binder filled with guitar tab printouts of songs I played throughout my teen years: The Trapeze Swinger by Iron & Wine Here Comes the Sun by The Beatles Starman by David Bowie Knock Yourself Out by Jon Brion
I loved reading The Creative Act: A Way of Being by music producer Rick Rubin. It’s organized into 78 short reflections — easy to pick up, put down, and come back to. A few select quotes from Rubin: Good habits create good art. Ultimately, your desire