What Makes Us Irreplaceable
Issue no.1 of Break out of the box tackles personal growth through a design lens. The newsletter's inaugural edition, illustrated by Marcus Oakley, explores human potential in the age of AI, the traps of measuring productivity, and the idea that shedding your role's label could unlock fresh thinking.
Thinking Against the Grain
As product designers grow fluent in "speaking machine" to collaborate with AI tools like ChatGPT, a pressing question emerges: what happens to human-driven innovation?
According to product experience leader John Maeda, our irreplaceability stems from a trait that also makes us less efficient than robots: circuitous, non-linear thinking. This "uphill thinking" is what produces genuine creative leaps, and while it carries greater risk, it also yields greater rewards.
Further Reading
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