I’ve been thinking about this for a while inspired partly by the point of Sapiens how wheat domesticated humans, and also that show Pluribus, but the other day I helped my elderly father in law learn to use it and got me wondering… am I now just doing its bidding? It started to feel like I was when I / it started ingesting international datasets for a compliance tracking app I’m building but...
I hear you, I’m not that much older but I graduated in 2011. I also studied industrial design. At that time the big wave was the transition to an app based everything and UX design suddenly became the most in demand design skill. Most of my friends switched gears and careers to digital design for the money. I stuck to what I was interested in though which was sustainability and design and ultimately I’m very happy with where I ended up (circular economy) but it was an awkward ~10 years as I explored learning all kinds of tools and ways applying my skills. It also was very tough to find the right full time job because product design (which has come to really mean digital product design) supplanted industrial design roles and made it hard to find something of value that resonated with me.
One of the things that guided me and still does is thinking about what types of problems need to be solved? From my perspective everything should ladder up to that if you want to have an impact. Even if you don’t keep learning and exploring until you find something that lights you up on the inside. We are not only one thing we can all wear many hats.
Saying that, we’re living through a paradigm shift of tremendous magnitude that’s altering our whole world. There will always be change though. My two cents is to focus on what draws your attention and energy and give yourself permission to say no to everything else.
AI is an incredible tool, learn how to use it and try to grow with the times. Good luck and stay creative :) Hope something in there helps, but having a positive mindset is critical. If you’re curious about the circular economy happy to share what I know - I think it’s the future.
Hi HN!The title is purposefully broad to see where the discussion goes, but I wanted to crowdsource from this very smart community and hear what problems need to be solved from your perspective.For context and transparency, I work at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. We’re a member funded non-profit focused on accelerating the transition to the circular economy, which means trying to eliminate...
Hey Everyone, I’ve been working a project the last few weeks and I thought I’d share it here to see what people think.It’s called Coco and currently installed on my discord server.https://discord.gg/Fkf7dpQnWaUltimately I’d like it expand beyond that. However for now here’s where it’s at! If you’d like to try it out, you can check it out on Discord. Curious what y’all think. Try out the /slash...