I had found Kamwa on the street, with his eyes open, with his mouth open, having vomited on the street… My son must have had such a horrible death. So much pain, so much suffering, it is killing me thinking about it.
I think if design thinking was to happen to education and they wanted to interview “extreme users”, then I’m definitely the ultimate extreme user.
Updated the Composition Book template of iA Writer a little bit.
I miss Kamwa .
My Archive is bright, it is colorful, happy, so nice. I decided not to any black and white in its design, the only place it has white is for the borders of photographs that are awesome. It is happy. And yet when you feed it into an LLM, it becomes sad, they keep telling me how traumatized and sad I am. Well, I’m not.
The best app to write in Farsi? It’s the good old TextEdit. Strangely so.
I hate communication…
| FOR | INSTEAD OF |
|---|---|
| Colorful, warm, alive | Black and white, cold, dead |
| Authentic — rooted in its own philosophy | Profilic — chasing approval, performing for an audience |
| Creative, messy, magical places where tools are visible — because seeing tools loads them into your attention system and activates creative play | Sterile, boring cubicles or open-plan offices where tools are hidden or require deliberate hunting |
| Romantic, grand, beautiful — like symphonies & cathedrals | Woke, corporate, template‑driven |
| Deep, serious, respectful, beautiful | Phony, shallow, rude, feed content |
| Noble, original, grounded in its own principles | Copying pop culture, driven by trends and markets |
| A living ecosystem (media as ecology) | A dead machine (media as a neutral pipe) |
| Play as the engine of learning (Freire: problem‑posing) | The banking model of education (depositing facts) |
| Fragile ideas protected until they grow (Ive) | Ideas crushed by careless opinions |
| Spaces that store continuity — shelves, traces, history | Spaces designed for the ephemeral — Instagram backdrops |
| Anti‑environments that wake you up | Environments that numb you into compliance |
| The gutter, the fermata, the negative space — where the receiver completes the work | Constant noise, no silence, no room for construction |
| Tools you can repair, own, and understand | Tools that own you — surveillance as a service |
| Made by artists who care | Generated by averages — LLM slop, soulless |
| “With, not for, the oppressed” (Freire) | Education as charity, saviorism, or control |
| Storage is continuity → continuity creates attachment → attachment creates seriousness | Disposability, no trace of the maker |
| The medium is the message | The content is the message (as if the medium were invisible) |
