Brad chats with Miriam Suzanne about pottery, theater, CSS, and why we shouldn’t just accept AI as the way. Miriam describes their through-line as collaborative creativity across pottery, theater, client work, and CSS standards, arguing process shapes results and that CSS is inherently collaborative with users, browsers, and devices. She critiques rigid notions of originality and authenticity, emphasizing growth and multiplicity. Miriam rejects “results over process” arguments, challenges claims of democratization amid surveillance, environmental costs, and corporate control, and calls for collective agency to imagine and build better tools and systems.
Topics:
- (00:00) - Waking Up Excited
- (02:26) - Returning to Pottery
- (04:51) - Theater as Hybrid Art
- (07:00) - Inviting the Audience In
- (11:14) - Questioning Authenticity
- (17:20) - Theater in Prisons
- (28:36) - Facilitating Collaboration Everywhere
- (38:06) - Why CSS Feels Fuzzy
- (53:01) - AI for Early Prototypes
- (01:01:05) - Fix Orgs Not Tools
- (01:08:10) - Using AI Without Hype
- (01:17:40) - Uneasy Benefits Tradeoff
- (01:26:10) - AI's Original Sin And Accountability
- (01:36:28) - Vision And Agency
- (01:45:22) - Music Recommendation
- (01:48:09) - Where To Follow And CSS Courses
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