Mark Wilson
@ctrlzee
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Global Design Editor, @FastCompany
Chicago, IL
Joined January 2008
Take a first look inside Netflix House—where there is actually just one movie theater, and it's free
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Netflix House, the streaming giant's new, 100,000 sq. ft live entertainment space, is a bold, immersive vision for the future of the cineplex—and almost certainly coming to a mall near you.
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If anything in this clueless middle manager workflow is useful to your job, you are about to be replaced by AI. And maybe you should be. This is not work. It's productivity theater.
1/ Based on my prior interactions with [/person], give me 5 things likely top of mind for our next meeting.
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From the makers of @AugustHomeInc smart locks, @yvesbehar and @jcjohnson want to fix the smart home with their new startup Doma
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The duo made August smart locks a smash hit, and now their new startup Doma aspires to fulfill the dream of the intelligent home.
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Read all about the number one Most Innovative Company's new project, Applied Mschf, here:
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CEO Gabe Whaley on why the viral hit factory is launching a creative consultancy, how Virgil Abloh is an inspiration, and its ambitions to rethink mass transit.
APPLIED MSCHF is a mercenary group. A private army. In today’s world: a PMC—Private Marketing Contractor. The kind of force a late-Renaissance city-state Prince hires, because if he doesn’t employ it, he’s threatened by it. https://t.co/My6n964CHu
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By Design episode 2 is live! Talking dystopian AI architecture and Superman production design
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Podcast Episode · By Design · 07/30/2025 · 55m
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Fast Company’s new design podcast is live. We call it By Design. Michael Bierut is our first guest as we talk Apple, IO, and gold phones. Give it a listen:
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Design Podcast · Updated Monthly · Design is no longer just about aesthetics—it's shaping the way we live, work, and interact with the world. Join ‘Fast Company’ senior editor Liz Stinson and global...
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Apple finally adding windows to iPad OS feels eerily like Max coming full circle to add back the HBO
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Two years ago, Jony Ive and I spoke about the potential of AI. He believed it would usher in the fourth great modality in UX
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Where Meta, Google, and Apple zig, Ive and Altman are choosing to zag. Can they pull it off?
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#RebrandReuse is going to #SXSWLondon We’ll explore the ultimate design challenge: how to create the un-throwaway world. Join the conversation & register for free: https://t.co/L2H2PhLoi7 And don’t forget to share your designs before it’s too late at https://t.co/rsge967RCG
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OpenAI x io x LoveFrom - what do you think if you're Apple, or anyone else in hardware, right now?
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Stocked with ex-Apple talent, io, LoveFrom, and OpenAI are assembling to develop the future of AI products.
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The new Ayn Rand-inspired @a16z brand is telling you exactly what it believes in
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The storied Silicon Valley venture capital firm has ditched sans serifs for Art Deco and Objectivism.
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Trump take two - the sequel is always worse
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President Trump has rewritten the propaganda playbook for the modern political age. It’s one part Cold War witch hunt, one part Michael Bay movie.
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Ooph, the kerning on the Pope's tomb really is that bad—and we figured out why
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The internet is up in arms about Pope Francis's tomb, and it's all because of lettering.
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Perhaps the true cost of writing with Al I that I didn't reference in this article - ultimately, writing is thinking, and in depriving yourself of the opportunity to write, you deprive yourself of the opportunity to think
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Whether it’s a private email or a public LinkedIn post, we need to admit that using AI to write is simply poor etiquette.
hidden cost to having AI help you with something - brain pollution the ideas it puts forth can muddy your original thinking by providing a valid answer to an open-ended question that then stops you from exploring further & finding a different way of expressing your idea
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hidden cost to having AI help you with something - brain pollution the ideas it puts forth can muddy your original thinking by providing a valid answer to an open-ended question that then stops you from exploring further & finding a different way of expressing your idea
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Excellent piece by @ctrlzee in @FastCompany explores what it takes to build a AI foundation model that can translate, summarize, and parse the real world for us, just like ChatGPT can translate, summarize, and parse a block of text ➡️ https://t.co/XU0q7Rt2Uw
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“ChatGPT can talk because it’s read a lot. So what happens when you feed an AI countless scientific readings? It learns physics, and how the world itself works.” @fastcompany @ctrlzee
What happens when you feed an AI countless scientific readings? As Archetype AI found out, it learns physics, and how the world itself works.
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API design is an under-appreciated craft, but we love obsessing over it. Steve and I spoke to @ctrlzee and Fast Company about how we approach it:
One thing I love about working at OpenAI is the craftsmanship the team put into every param name, field, and line of code @athyuttamre and I got to chat to @ctrlzee about it https://t.co/j1ZvucbZ9e
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