Mike Monteiro
American designer and writer; co-founder of Mule Design and author of Design Is a Job (2012) and Ruined by Design (2019), on designers' ethical responsibility. Writes a weekly advice newsletter and now also paints.
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Catholic schools reward rote memorization more than critical thinking.
Catholic school rewarded rote memorization more than critical thinking.
buttondown.comSaid 11 Sept 2026This on korrents
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Museums are built for the purposes of preservation or to prevent the repetition of past mistakes.
There are generally two reasons why we build museums: to preserve things, or to not do them again.
buttondown.comSaid 28 Aug 2026This on korrents
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Catholic schools reward rote memorization more than critical thinking.
Catholic school rewarded rote memorization more than critical thinking.
Buy my new book HOW TO DIE (AND OTHER STORIES)!! Said 11 Sept 2026
The use of LLMs may eventually lead to people losing the ability to know each other's true voices.
Eventually your LLM will write your child a note and their LLM will write a reply and neither of you will actually know each other's voices.
Buy my new book HOW TO DIE (AND OTHER STORIES)!! Said 11 Sept 2026
Museums are built for the purposes of preservation or to prevent the repetition of past mistakes.
There are generally two reasons why we build museums: to preserve things, or to not do them again.
Buy my new book HOW TO DIE (AND OTHER STORIES)!! Said 28 Aug 2026
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The bombing of small towns in war tends to be erased from collective memory through the use of vague terminology.
As the horror of war unfolds, the bombing of small towns tends to get sanded away from our collective memory, replaced with vague terms, because the collective noun for the bombing of small towns is war.
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Art serves as a tool to ensure historical events are remembered and cannot be erased from collective memory.
We make art as a warning. We make art as an anchor. We make sure that what is happening here will be remembered by those that come after us.
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The ability to choose where one lives is a privilege that should be extended to everyone.
I'd like everyone to be able to choose where they live, and be safe where they choose to live.
Buy my new book HOW TO DIE (AND OTHER STORIES)!! Said 7 Aug 2026
People would be kinder to each other if they shared each other's food.
I genuinely think we'd be kinder to each other if we ate one another's food, as Anthony Bourdain used to say.
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Being useful to others can serve as a mental health tool that provides a sense of purpose and necessity.
The thing about being useful is that it's a two way street. You figure out something that you can do to help your friends, your family, your community, and that's great. But being useful is also an amazing mental health trick. It makes you feel necessary. It gives you purpose.
Buy my new book HOW TO DIE (AND OTHER STORIES)!! Said 24 Jul 2026
The best way to deal with the feeling of being adrift is to focus on what others need rather than what one needs.
And over the years (along with much therapy) I've found that the best way to deal with this feeling, which can be incredibly lonely, is not to ask myself what I need, but to ask myself what others need. How can I be useful?
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The pandemic has had a lasting impact on society.
The pandemic did things to us, and the fact that we, as a society, mostly decided to pretend it never happened, means that at some level it is still doing things to us.
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The tech industry may be exacerbating loneliness by offering digital substitutes for human connection.
And the greatest sin of all might be a tech industry that's exploiting your loneliness by offering you friends that don't exist.
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Understimulating children can be beneficial for their development.
It troubles me that kids aren't allowed/encouraged/etc to be bored anymore. I'm a fan of understimulating children. Let them figure their way out of it.
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The language used regarding AI adoption is similar to the language of coercion used in rape culture.
I am, however, comparing the language we use when discussing AI adoption to the language of rape culture. It's the language of coercion. Language that implies a lack of choice and reminds you of the power those who are using it have over you. A lack of agency.
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The shift toward AI is being driven by management rather than being a worker-driven shift.
And while there are certainly workers who've embraced AI tools-I'll let them provide their own reasoning elsewhere-what I'm seeing is the opposite of a worker-driven shift. Management is driving the shift to AI.
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