Chronologically

1. Material Matters – Bas van Abel – Repair and conflict minerals

   Great conversation with Fairphone founder Bas van Abel about the trials and tribulations of starting a business and product focused on longevity, repairability and ethically sourced minerals.

   If consumerism was a religion we’d all be extremists.

2. Blackbox Episode 3 – Repocalypse now

   Loneliness, love, lust and LLMs… what could possibly go wrong?

3. I deleted my Instagram account

   Starting the slow process of removing myself and my data from these giant tech platforms.

   

4. Weeknotes 2024 W23

   A blueprint for a lovely week

5. PaperNet Boarding Pass

   A fantastic example of playful design and elevating the value artifacts based on the context of use. By Brian Suda and the creative folks at https://optional.is/.

6. The Clearleft Podcast: Measuring Design

   The smart folks at Clearleft and co. discuss what can, can’t, should and shouldn’t be measured of design and user experiences.

7. Metadesign For Murph — dConstruct Audio Archive

   John Willshire’s musings of designing for a future we can’t see from 2015 dConstruct conference.

8. A wild walk with Charlie

   I had a wonderful morning hike around with Charlie Peverett appreciating the flora and fauna of Lewes. We chatted about the upcoming Content Rising conference, some of the sustainability and regenerative projects he and Tasmin have been doing at Wilsome. It’s lovely to reconnect with people making some positive change in the world. Inspired!

   

9. Weeknotes 2024 W21 W22

   Wait, what day is it?

10. A solution seeking a problem

    Kyoto based pottery studio Asahiyaki uses ~1000 pieces from its 400 year collection to train an neural network to generate new ideas for pottery pieces. Interesting but I can’t help but notice the affect on the design process as described by Matsubayashi Hosai the studio director.