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Every tombstone gets two dates. I spent college setting them in type and never thought passion gets them too. On burning out, finding my way back, why "do what you love" is risky advice, and what I tell young designers instead.
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A creative director in an old Model T plant told me "no" at 22. Later in my career, an accelerator folded, a protocol didn't hold, and a marriage ended. Kanye asked what's left when it all falls down. I've had four chances to find out, and I'm still learning to let someone else answer.
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I have never taken a design class. What I had was a photograph of a shoe in SLAM and a pirated copy of Photoshop, because a basketball video game got the sneakers wrong. Twenty five years later, that is still the whole method.
