For one, choose better problems to solve:

Designers are, by definition, problem-solvers. And the world has never been so blessedly full of problems. Our infrastructure is rotting, the economy is crap, Wall Street is awash with criminals and millions of people can’t get basic medical care, food, and water. We don’t need another app to rate your sandwich. We don’t need to know when we go to sleep and get up. We do not need digital farms. We need real ones. We need fresh water. We need solutions for the apocalypse.

—Over at .net magazine, Mike supplies a few ways you (yes, you!) can better approach design, shed excuses and doubt, and oh yeah, lay off your mother (for once). As the man says, this year’s gonna be a goddamned golden age. We couldn’t be more excited.

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