HeyJaredNotes on the Living Arts
Making people feel free and safe to create arts in daily life and explore why humans make things in the first place.
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My Sketchbook Has Been Drawing Me (opens the original)
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I often feel like I have been building the same sketchbook for thirty years.Not filling the same one, obviously. I have filled and lost and damaged and abandoned more sketchbooks than I can count. Some are beautiful in the way old working objects become beautiful. Some are mostly evidence of bad decisions, interrupted plans, coffee rings, ticket stubs, phone numbers with no names attached, and drawings that were much more important to me when I made them than they appear to have any right to be
Why the Age of AI Should Remind Us That Intentions Matter (opens the original)
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Why Intentions Matter — Maybe moreso than ever before in human historySimon Sinek famously urged people to “start with why.” In the age of artificial intelligence, that advice has become more important, not less. I am highly conflicted about AI-use despite diving into it deeply. I do have serious concerns.AI can generate an image, compose a paragraph, suggest a melody, summarize a book, or produce fifty variations of an idea before we have finished our coffee. But the speed and abundance of its
When to Use AI: The Real Math Is Attention, Time, and Capacity (opens the original)
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When I was running makerspaces, I began a quiet exploration of learning to make everything myself. The idea of designing, customizing, and fabricating the objects in my life exactly as I wanted them became a slow creep. Project after project forced me to walk through the thinking, because I had to guide my students — and the teachers who initiated the project inquiries when the collaborations were envisioned by adults. I had to do the thinking and then translate it for every audience: from the c
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