frank chimero
[new york]
intro’d to Frank via a tweet of his post via Nilofer:
A lot of people have wondered what in the hell I’ve been up to since I shipped my book in 2012. People think I’m being lazy, like I’m riding a wave of money and not working. I suppose I haven’t been working that much, but unfortunately, there is no wave of money. Usually, it is best not to jump into criticisms, and to let people think what they think, but I’d like to explain myself.
Basically, everyone in my family died of cancer.
After returning from that ordeal to resume work and rejoin the internet, everything seemed like trivial bullshit—because it was.
You can go back. Sometimes that’s progress.
Two terrible years taught me the most important lesson about life I’ve ever learned on my own: you only become bulletproof when you refuse to disguise your injuries. This ends the show and deflates any notion that you have your shit together all the time. The wounds are a gift: with the mask gone, you get to be a person again. You learn how to accept help, and better yet, how to better give it.
the mask ness
Did you know that was the original slogan for the World Wide Web? Before we had disruption, innovation, changing the world, and giant piles of money, we had “share what you know.” Isn’t that nice? What a humble and auspicious beginning. All we have now is built upon that spirit, and I myself would like to get back to it.
posted on 25th bday of www – where Tim is calling/hoping for a re decentralization…
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Do things the long, hard, stupid way
2013
the more a gift moves.. the more value/meaning it has
what if in design i can help people want to give more.. than want to get more.. (paraphrase)
a conduit – to make people snap back into focus
everyone is saying – stop and look around you.. everything is possible again and the world isn’t yet done.
if we start making things for one another and start thinking of them as gifts…
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find/follow Frank:
Professional designer. Amateur human. Intelligent idiot.
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be you. 