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Jason Yuan

What Jason Yuan thinks about creativity

@jason-yuan · 18 positions · 0 changes of mind

Designer and founder of Hivemind, a social AI that talks one-on-one with many people at once, and earlier co-founder of New Computer, maker of the Dot assistant.

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  1. Our readingWork should live in the same space as the office; surrounding yourself with it maximizes exposure to the work and the ability to connect the dots.

    Their wordsyou have to just let the work live in the same space as you know your office and like doing the work. you just surround yourself with the work and that that sort of maximizes your exposure to to the work and your ability to connect the dots so to speak.

    ↗Jason Yuan - Designing 99 "No"s for a single "Yes"youtube.com 6th of 18 in this recording

  3. Our readingInsights about what a product and company should be often come from making the creative work around it.

    Their wordsI often get insights about what the product and company should be through making the creative work around it.

    ↗Jason Yuan - Designing 99 "No"s for a single "Yes"youtube.com 9th of 18 in this recording

  5. Our readingAI models want to add or patch as a form of making better, whereas the design process is really about editing away.

    design

    Their wordsthe AI models they want to add. They want to add or patch as a form of making better. But I I I think the design process is really about editing away.

    ↗Jason Yuan - Designing 99 "No"s for a single "Yes"youtube.com 11th of 18 in this recording

  7. Our readingThe cost of creating coherent work has gone up, because making incoherent work is now so fast and easy.

    Their wordsThe cost of creating coherent work has gone up though because now it is so so fast and easy to make incoherent.

    ↗Jason Yuan - Designing 99 "No"s for a single "Yes"youtube.com 15th of 18 in this recording