Author: David
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My 2025 Daily Checklist
I’ve been thinking about what to focus on in 2025 to be more productive and happier. I developed a short checklist that captures five key questions I’m exploring to get there. These are heuristics, not absolute truths, and they’ll evolve over time. I hope you find them helpful as well. 1. Is my own narcissism…
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Integrating Regenerative Design with Free Market Economics: The Role of ESG in Creating Sustainable Value
In this article I explore the intersection of regenerative design, shifts to long-termism, free market economics, and how businesses can start on the path to sustainability. In today’s evolving business landscape, the integration of regenerative design within the framework of capitalism is gaining momentum. At the heart of this intersection lies Environmental, Social, and Governance…
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Speaking Machine
I enjoyed How to Speak Machine by John Maeda. Language and thinking to move our understanding of the current ‘AI’ moment beyond the hype. A non-exhaustive list of resonating quotes from the book. I love neologisms to understand differently and the idea of trying out new technologies for yourself, to play. Computation Computation is an…
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Manage inputs, not outputs
I keep returning to Working backwards. Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon. A great insiders view of Amazon’s period of growth and mindset of customer obsession. I want to focus here on what Amazon calls input and output metrics. Amazon focuses on controllable input metrics, the drivers, when managed well can lead to profitable…
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Design for Good
2022 is the first iteration of Design for Good. There are 10 contributing organizations and each provides their designers 5 days to contribute to the project. Participants across member organizations self-organize into small teams to ideate, prototype, and test ideas. Based on the outcome of the first iteration the network of participating organizations will be…