Jeff Szpak

[Jeff Szpak @szpakoli]

Just met @JoshuaDavis at La Guardia! Holy crap!

[Ryo Lu @ryolu_]

efficiency, productivity, speed

we keep worshipping these words like they are what we live for

ship faster
merge more
manage more agents
compress every loop
remove every pause
turn every hour into output

but what is the point of endless production if there is no time left to think deeply?

not react
not optimize
not summarize
not clear the queue

think

to sit with a question long enough that your real intention starts to appear
to find the purpose underneath the motion
to ask whether the thing being accelerated should exist at all

ai could be a new canvas

a way to make strange things
personal things
impossible things
tools, worlds, poems, games, interfaces, films, languages, rituals
things that let more people touch the shape of their own imagination

but instead, so much of it is becoming slop factories

more content
more funnels
more tickets
more fake work pretending to be value

you can merge 2000 prs
you can manage 500 agents
you can wake up to dashboards proving that the machine kept moving while you slept

but what is the point if you only sleep 5 hours a day?

what is the point if you stop talking to other humans?
stop learning about the past?
stop playing?
stop wandering?
stop being surprised?

what is the point if your whole life becomes optimizing the system that is consuming you?

speed is not meaning
scale is not wisdom
automation is not freedom if it only makes everyone run faster

and where are we running?

toward what?

a world where every person becomes a manager of machines, and every machine produces more things no one had the time to truly want?

the danger is not that ai makes us lazy

the danger is that ai makes us endlessly busy

that it gives us infinite production before we have found intention
infinite execution before we have developed taste
infinite motion before we have learned how to be still

maybe the real frontier is not more speed

maybe it is discernment

knowing what not to make
knowing when to stop
knowing when the most productive thing is to sleep, read history, call a friend, play with a cat, walk without tracking it, or stare at the ceiling until the false urgency dissolves

tools should give us more life
not turn life into a tool

if ai is going to matter, it should not just help us produce more

it should help us become more human
more imaginative
more free

otherwise, it’s the same old factory
just without humans

[Jeff Szpak @szpakoli]

@MatthewBerman @bot I would love one as well!

[joshpuckett @joshpuckett]

I can't believe over 30k of you willingly follow me on here. I am both honored and horrified.

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[Jeff Szpak @szpakoli]

@learnframer @getframeplate @framer PDF

[Jeff Szpak @szpakoli]

@danmall MAP

[Jeff Szpak @szpakoli]

@designcoursecom Hell yeah, this is really cool!

[Jeff Szpak @szpakoli]

@vanschneider Hell yeah, thank you for all you do for the community. Insta-subscribe

[Jeff Szpak @szpakoli]

@v_computer 👋

[Jeff Szpak @szpakoli]

@designcoursecom I think descript might do this? https://t.co/Q1ia9kSZ6o

[Tommy Geoco 🇺🇸 @designertom]

Design's best trendspotter is @ridd_design.

- He drives industry dialog with @joindiveclub
- He changes the way designers work with @inflight
- He spotlights designers, tools and trends early

I spent two days with him to learn how he does it.

One of the most important questions he asks: What should exist?

It's a question I asked before embarking on this series going backstage with some of the industry's most talented people.

This is the first episode.

What I learned was a lot different than what I thought I would.

[Jeff Szpak @szpakoli]

@FonsMans This might sound odd or dated but the desktop search UI for myspace is pretty solid.

[Jeff Szpak @szpakoli]

@remonleijtens Yes please!

[Jeff Szpak @szpakoli]

@ormanclark Add more sizzle!

[Jeff Szpak @szpakoli]

@brianathey This? https://t.co/CqdzvzvQam

[Paul Lapkin @DesignedByPaul]

I've nearly perfected my @Framer Code Override for the perfect Horizontal Scroll effect. It works flawlessly on any screen and size.

Retweet if you'd like me to share the Remix.

Images by @DeathToStock. Made with Framer GPT by @_joerl 🤖

[Allan Peters @AllanPeters]

Here are the 3 state seals that I submitted for the Minnesota State Seal redesign project. S63 S78 and S160 - Please leave a comment on the State site if you'd like to see one of these represent MN. https://t.co/crbVxNwX9s

[Allan Peters @AllanPeters]

My book Logos That Last has launched! 🎉

It’s on sale today over on Amazon:

https://t.co/i98cxLBMv1

[Jeff Szpak @szpakoli]

@craftworkdesign 🖤

[Jeff Szpak @szpakoli]

@theryanhayward @framer Framer!

[Jeff Szpak @szpakoli]

@theryanhayward @framer Framer!