This week's newsletter – on the trials and travails of being part cyborg (Welcome NuHerbie) and discussing a new podcast experiment I'm going to try – is written and ready for recording (will get on with that later this morning, when my voice isn't such a grog-gravel mess). If you're so inclined, you can subscribe here.

Maria Schneider: "Trust your enthusiasm"

I first came to learn of and love Maria Schneider's work when she collaborated with David Bowie on "Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)" and this interview, from Slate's WORKING podcast, is a fantastic primer on her work and her processes. "Trust your enthusiasm": I'm keeping that one with me...

“Hard work doesn’t always pay off”

Fantastic episode of the CLEVER podcast featuring Taylor Levy, one half of CW&T, the (oft-mentioned here) design studio behind beloved essentials such as the Superlocal and the Pen Type-C. Great interview, with this bit, “Buy lots of lottery tickets,” from their Principles page, really speaking to me:

We’re not suggesting you should gamble, but launching a project often feels like rolling dice. Hard work doesn’t always pay off. There’s no correlation between how much time is spent working on a project and the ultimate payoff. That’s why we try lots of things. We make tons of stuff. And once in a while we get lucky.

CW&T https://cwandt.com/pages/principles

While how, precisely, that will manifest in my own work remains TBD, I’m definitely looking to what Taylor and Chei-Wei are doing and using that as a basis for reconceptualizing my practice and how I think about the processes within. You can check out the whole interview here: