Brian Hamburg

“On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey published the world’s first tweet: “just setting up my twttr.” On July 22, 2018, Donald Trump tweeted: “To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!” (Capitalization his.) In the twelve years between those two tweets, some things happened that are worth exploring.”
― Mike Monteiro, Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It

“That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

“It should freak you out that gangsters can agree on a code of behavior but designers can’t. Crime is more organized than design.”
― Mike Monteiro, Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It

“Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times, and hurl in the face of custom, and trade, and office, the fact which is the upshot of all history, that there is a great responsible Thinker and Actor working wherever a man works; that a true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the centre of things. Where he is, there is nature.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance