Eric Karjaluoto – Designer & Author

Eric Karjaluoto a Vancouver BC based designer. He’s one of the two guys behind SmashLAB, a small design studio which he co-founded 19 years ago. Clients include Arc’teryx, Saltspring Soapworks, The Nature Conservancy, The Vancouver Aquarium, and a bunch more. He’s written two books, The Design Method and Speak Human. And together with his business partner, Eric Shelkie, he’s built a handful of useful side projects, including Officehours, Campnab, and Emetti, to name a few.

The Question: How do we slow down and focus on what really matters?

I was sent a link to one of Eric’s blog articles, How to Keep Sane, In Faketopia. After reading it, I sent Eric an email and asked him to tell me more about the ideas from his article.

In our conversation we talk about the fakery in social media, the idea that feeding the ‘social media beast’ doesn’t do anything to help our us reach our career goals, and how being real about what’s most important can help us get more out of life and work alike. In short, we’re talking about how to tidy up our list of priorities.

Links

• SmashLAB (where Eric works) http://www.smashlab.com/
• Eric Karjaluoto’s Website (where he writes) http://www.erickarjaluoto.com/
• The article we talked about today http://www.erickarjaluoto.com/blog/how-to-keep-yourself-sane-in-faketopia/
• Eric’s Twitter is @karj
• Eric make products including Campnab, Officehours, and Emetti
• We are all famous to a few people — Having cancer on social media
• Go listen to Design Tomorrow (a podcast about design, technology and being human) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/design-tomorrow/id1433919260?mt=2
• Find One Thing Real Quick on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook (@OTRQpodcast for all three)
• Subscribe and leave a rating and review at Apple Podcasts (or where ever you like to listen)
• Get audiobooks from Libro.fm (use the offer code OTRQ and get three for the price of one)