AI

The Return of Craft in a World of AI Design

Jacob Trunk
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July 30, 2026
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5 min read

There’s a production studio in Hillsboro, Oregon called Laika. They specialize in stop motion animation. They produced the benchmark-setting Coraline in 2009, redefining what a stop motion movie can achieve. For their production Kubo and the Two Strings, they released time-lapse videos of the grueling two-day-long process of shooting a few seconds worth of a […]

Three graphic elements, a puckered square, hexagon, and circle symbolize data that is reactive and data that is mature and intelligent.

AI Won’t Fix a Data Problem. It’ll Crank It Up to 11.

Tim Haak
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July 16, 2026
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7 min read

Why data maturity has to come before your AI strategy, and what to do about it. I’ve been thinking about data a lot lately. Every organization has been amassing mountains of data by using various products, systems, and tools for many years. At the same time, a lot of folks are excited about how AI […]