John Maeda’s Blog

This rabbit hole started when I noticed this video on YT: So I went into Bank of America Institute’s new report, The Gen Z Reality Check⁠, expecting to learn about Gen Z spending and whether the fellow was right or not.

For most of my career I designed the cockpit.

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Source: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/the-year-in-llms/

I started this thought in this post over here.

1) Install prerequisites A) Homebrew B) llama.cpp via Homebrew Get llama.cpp via brew: Verify: C) ollama via Homebrew There’s an easy installer now instead of doing it the brew way.

I wanted to use this https://github.com/fatih/dotfiles/blob/main/claude/statusline-git.sh 2.

Govind’s “Out Of Distribution Thinking” note and some new LLM learnings … Manifold Learning: Bing Wen Brunton Mechanistic Interpretability: Jenny Vega Visualizing LLMs | Layers of FunctionGemma Unsloth FunctionGemma Notebooks Last Runpod State | My Runpod…

https://liner.com/news/fighting-startups-liner https://surgehq.ai

List of things I would have fun doing before I kick the bucket as a note to myself and for folks who are curious: