Patrick Morgan
@itspatmorgan.bsky.social
Product Designer.
Writing Unknown Arts for 7k+ creative builders: https://unknownarts.co
Writing Unknown Arts for 7k+ creative builders: https://unknownarts.co
Picasso drew the same bull 11 times before he got it 'right.'
Between 1945-46, he started with realistic, detailed drawings and ended with just a few simple strokes. Each drawing necessary to reach the next.
You can't shortcut your way to simplicity. You have to earn it.
Between 1945-46, he started with realistic, detailed drawings and ended with just a few simple strokes. Each drawing necessary to reach the next.
You can't shortcut your way to simplicity. You have to earn it.
September 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Picasso drew the same bull 11 times before he got it 'right.'
Between 1945-46, he started with realistic, detailed drawings and ended with just a few simple strokes. Each drawing necessary to reach the next.
You can't shortcut your way to simplicity. You have to earn it.
Between 1945-46, he started with realistic, detailed drawings and ended with just a few simple strokes. Each drawing necessary to reach the next.
You can't shortcut your way to simplicity. You have to earn it.
There's a whole lotta knowledge in the Unknown Arts archive just waiting to be discovered.
171 articles – multiple books worth of guidance – to help creative builders thrive.
All FREE!
171 articles – multiple books worth of guidance – to help creative builders thrive.
All FREE!
March 4, 2025 at 12:30 AM
There's a whole lotta knowledge in the Unknown Arts archive just waiting to be discovered.
171 articles – multiple books worth of guidance – to help creative builders thrive.
All FREE!
171 articles – multiple books worth of guidance – to help creative builders thrive.
All FREE!
Exploring using textures that have surfaced in my @midjourney feature images in my brand logo.
March 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Exploring using textures that have surfaced in my @midjourney feature images in my brand logo.
The amount of exploratory iteration I can do in just minutes with @midjourney still blows my mind.
March 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The amount of exploratory iteration I can do in just minutes with @midjourney still blows my mind.
Visual exploration for my recent article "AI is a Prism, Not a Source"
March 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Visual exploration for my recent article "AI is a Prism, Not a Source"
This week's article "The End of Design Certainty" is resonating.
February 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
This week's article "The End of Design Certainty" is resonating.
I constantly use dictation with ChatGPT, so I prototyped a voice-driven workflow triggered by a Task that guides a daily standup routine using a custom GPT and Notion.
January 20, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I constantly use dictation with ChatGPT, so I prototyped a voice-driven workflow triggered by a Task that guides a daily standup routine using a custom GPT and Notion.
This week, I wrote about how I'm turning my AI conversations into reusable assets powering my creative workflow.
January 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This week, I wrote about how I'm turning my AI conversations into reusable assets powering my creative workflow.
The brand I started for my writing now carries across basically all my public facing properties:
- Newsletter
- AI knowledge base
- Portfolio website
- Portfolio slides
- Resume
- Newsletter
- AI knowledge base
- Portfolio website
- Portfolio slides
- Resume
January 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The brand I started for my writing now carries across basically all my public facing properties:
- Newsletter
- AI knowledge base
- Portfolio website
- Portfolio slides
- Resume
- Newsletter
- AI knowledge base
- Portfolio website
- Portfolio slides
- Resume
The "modern" UI of the bank that powers so many startups... yeesh.
January 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The "modern" UI of the bank that powers so many startups... yeesh.
Zoom: a rare company whose brand becomes a verb and still fumbles the bag.
January 1, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Zoom: a rare company whose brand becomes a verb and still fumbles the bag.
Feeling stuck? Go full Costanza in 2025:
Do the opposite of everything you'd normally do and watch it turn your life around.
Do the opposite of everything you'd normally do and watch it turn your life around.
December 31, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Feeling stuck? Go full Costanza in 2025:
Do the opposite of everything you'd normally do and watch it turn your life around.
Do the opposite of everything you'd normally do and watch it turn your life around.
Before AI / After AI.
December 28, 2024 at 12:30 AM
Before AI / After AI.
Are you Team Right or Team Left when it comes to AI assistants?
December 26, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Are you Team Right or Team Left when it comes to AI assistants?
State of the software industry.
December 26, 2024 at 12:30 AM
State of the software industry.
People underestimate two things about working with AI:
1. The amount of iteration required to get what you're looking for
2. The speed of iteration that's possible
Dozens of iterations in just a few minutes with @midjourney.
1. The amount of iteration required to get what you're looking for
2. The speed of iteration that's possible
Dozens of iterations in just a few minutes with @midjourney.
December 24, 2024 at 12:30 AM
People underestimate two things about working with AI:
1. The amount of iteration required to get what you're looking for
2. The speed of iteration that's possible
Dozens of iterations in just a few minutes with @midjourney.
1. The amount of iteration required to get what you're looking for
2. The speed of iteration that's possible
Dozens of iterations in just a few minutes with @midjourney.
Sunday evening Blade Runner vibes. Made w Midjourney.
December 23, 2024 at 1:52 AM
Sunday evening Blade Runner vibes. Made w Midjourney.
Can we ditch this new title naming convention already?
Just tell me what the job is... smh
Just tell me what the job is... smh
December 22, 2024 at 6:13 PM
Can we ditch this new title naming convention already?
Just tell me what the job is... smh
Just tell me what the job is... smh
Other important callouts:
Any non-SWE won't be able to validate that the generated scripts actually do what they described upfront.
They'll also struggle to debug, even with AI assistance because they won't know how to describe the problem or potential solutions.
Any non-SWE won't be able to validate that the generated scripts actually do what they described upfront.
They'll also struggle to debug, even with AI assistance because they won't know how to describe the problem or potential solutions.
December 21, 2024 at 6:25 PM
Other important callouts:
Any non-SWE won't be able to validate that the generated scripts actually do what they described upfront.
They'll also struggle to debug, even with AI assistance because they won't know how to describe the problem or potential solutions.
Any non-SWE won't be able to validate that the generated scripts actually do what they described upfront.
They'll also struggle to debug, even with AI assistance because they won't know how to describe the problem or potential solutions.
Prompt 2 adds on even more SWE knowledge:
- Fetching files from a URL
- Variables
- String interpolation
- For loop
- Regex
- Parallel processing
- Error handling
- API usage example
Again, no way you're writing this without SWE training.
- Fetching files from a URL
- Variables
- String interpolation
- For loop
- Regex
- Parallel processing
- Error handling
- API usage example
Again, no way you're writing this without SWE training.
December 21, 2024 at 6:25 PM
Prompt 2 adds on even more SWE knowledge:
- Fetching files from a URL
- Variables
- String interpolation
- For loop
- Regex
- Parallel processing
- Error handling
- API usage example
Again, no way you're writing this without SWE training.
- Fetching files from a URL
- Variables
- String interpolation
- For loop
- Regex
- Parallel processing
- Error handling
- API usage example
Again, no way you're writing this without SWE training.
Prompt 1 contains a lot of basics:
- Python as language of choice
- Launching a server
- Creating a HTML form
- Submitting an API request
- Formatting the API response
- Saving & executing the code from the API response
If you don't have SWE training, you're not writing this.
- Python as language of choice
- Launching a server
- Creating a HTML form
- Submitting an API request
- Formatting the API response
- Saving & executing the code from the API response
If you don't have SWE training, you're not writing this.
December 21, 2024 at 6:25 PM
Prompt 1 contains a lot of basics:
- Python as language of choice
- Launching a server
- Creating a HTML form
- Submitting an API request
- Formatting the API response
- Saving & executing the code from the API response
If you don't have SWE training, you're not writing this.
- Python as language of choice
- Launching a server
- Creating a HTML form
- Submitting an API request
- Formatting the API response
- Saving & executing the code from the API response
If you don't have SWE training, you're not writing this.
Don't dismiss software engineering just yet.
The OpenAI o3 demo packs in A LOT of knowledge that only a person with SWE training would have.
Let’s dissect each prompt, shall we?
The OpenAI o3 demo packs in A LOT of knowledge that only a person with SWE training would have.
Let’s dissect each prompt, shall we?
December 21, 2024 at 6:25 PM
Don't dismiss software engineering just yet.
The OpenAI o3 demo packs in A LOT of knowledge that only a person with SWE training would have.
Let’s dissect each prompt, shall we?
The OpenAI o3 demo packs in A LOT of knowledge that only a person with SWE training would have.
Let’s dissect each prompt, shall we?
AI permanently collapsing the talent stack.
December 21, 2024 at 12:30 AM
AI permanently collapsing the talent stack.
When I hit my Claude message limit
December 19, 2024 at 10:30 PM
When I hit my Claude message limit
Newsletters aren't a very visual medium, but I've tried hard to make mine feel distinct.
Even when I'm wearing my writer hat, the designer in me keeps going strong.
Even when I'm wearing my writer hat, the designer in me keeps going strong.
December 19, 2024 at 1:30 AM
Newsletters aren't a very visual medium, but I've tried hard to make mine feel distinct.
Even when I'm wearing my writer hat, the designer in me keeps going strong.
Even when I'm wearing my writer hat, the designer in me keeps going strong.