Sources of personal competitive advantage: - delayed gratification - capital - network (who you know) - unique skills or combinations - platform - ability to suffer - family / home life - speed - ability to change your mind - ability to learn/adapt What am I missing?

working on something more… physical

“Humans don’t mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.” Sebastian Junger

Unbounded is a joint collaboration between Koto, |\| △ |\|, @ParityTech, and Web3 Foundation for Polkadot. Possibly the first open source, freely available and on-chain funded font in the world.

I really appreciate structured exploration for machine learning projects. There’s a ton here worth exploring: medium.com/@soapsudtycoon…

AI tool to generate colour palettes from any text prompt — #stablediffusion #ArtificialIntelligence

Following your passion is a luxury. Following your values is a necessity. Passion is a fickle magnet: it pulls you toward your current interests. Values are a steady compass: they point you toward a future purpose. Passion brings immediate joy. Values provide lasting meaning.

Hi! Did you know I teach at UCLA? We have an amazing small department called Design Media Arts. We rarely have openings for new faculty and we have one now. Please help spread the word! Professor of Media Arts, Media Design and Visual Communication: recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF07857

Change your environment. Change your results.

I think "know your audience" can be dangerous advice for writers. Write stuff you yourself find interesting and entertaining. Writing for yourself is fun, and it shows. Writing for others is work, and it shows.

enough of myself you can easily train your own custom embedding here within about an hour, using just a handful of ref pictures: strmr.com (h/t TomLikesRobots🤖 ) or here: drawanyone.com

One of the biggest lies we’re taught as designers is that you have to be able vocalize every single decision you make with data or research. Nah. Add that gradient because you think it looks cool. Use that typeface bc you enjoy it. That’s all the excuse you need.

Every year I read a lot of grad school applications from accomplished people that don't give me the info I'm looking for. It feels like a major hidden curriculum thing. So here's (my opinion on) how to write a great Statement of Purpose/Research for a PhD program. 🧵 1/

I am getting many emails asking what kind of apps I think are interesting in AI. ten-minute brainstorm of free startup ideas — some aren't good businesses, some have been tried, but not nearly enough of these have been tried when capabilities are improving so rapidly. please add!

Great creators start with great taste.

Trust your instincts on people. And insist on the best.

i trained an ai chatbot on my childhood journal entries - so that i could engage in real-time dialogue with my "inner child" some reflections below: