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Debbie Millman

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  1. “At that time, working in the newsroom, putting the paper together, everything was done old school layout, paste up, compugraphic machines, stat cameras. And then when I graduated was both doing freelance editorial and freelance layout and paste-up for the first couple of years of my career.”

    2024-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #750: Neil Gaiman and Debbie Millman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “Or afternoon delight, depending on what they were doing, and live there for about five years before I ended up moving back into the village for a short period of time. So that was the one thing I knew that I wanted to live in Manhattan. I did not know that I could be a designer, that I would be a designer, or that design was even a discipline until my senior year of college. had worked my way up to be the editor of the arts and features section of the student newspaper at SUNY Albany where I went to school and realized very quickly that as much as I loved assigning articles and coming up with themes for this section of the newspaper I was endlessly fascinated by putting the paper together by designing the paper and thus a baby designer was born. All of one class in design while I was in college and really learned almost everything I knew.”

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  3. “Yeah, I ended up appealing to the landlord to please, please help me find someplace else to live because I really didn't have any place else to go. And he ended up being able to rent me another one of the apartments he had in another building he owned on 16th Street, which was a fourth floor tenement walk-up, a railroad flat that I couldn't afford on my own and ended up living with a couple. My roommates were a couple because it was a railroad flat. I had to walk through the apartment, which meant through their bedroom to get to mine, which often meant I was stuck on one side or the other, depending on their nocturnal habits.”

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  4. “I didn't know where I was going. It was quite serendipitous. My friend Jay found the apartment for us. Unfortunately, that wonderful summer turned out rather unfortunate because the woman who Jay and I were subleted from was rather than paying the rent with the rent money that she was getting from us was keeping it and not paying the rent. So at the end of the summer, we all got evicted.”

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  5. “I actually never set out to be a designer. I thought that I was going to be a journalist. The only thing that I knew for sure when I was in college was that when I graduated, I wanted to live in Manhattan. At that point, I had not ever lived in Manhattan. And that was my big dream. And I came to Manhattan the summer of 1983. I often say that that was the summer of David Bowie's modern love and the police's synchronicity. I saw both concerts that summer. I moved into a sublet apartment with a friend that had also recently graduated. She had found a sublet on the corner of Hudson and Perry Streets in the village. I didn't know it at the time, but moving into an apartment on the intersection. Of Hudson and Perry was almost as if I was entering the movie Gigget Goes to Manhattan”

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  6. “In the middle of the street, there is a delivery truck and I not only labeled the delivery truck, I also drew Sign on the delivery truck. And the sign was Leis potato chips. I drew the logo at eight years old. And when I saw this drawing, I realized that I had predicted my whole life. I'm a native New Yorker now living in Manhattan. I've been living in Manhattan for 33 years. The bank, I go to the cleaners, I take lots of taxis, lots of buses. And at the time I found this drawing, I was. Logos for a living. Had I known that it would have been that easy just to follow that drawing, I would have saved decades of experiments and failure and rejection.”

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  7. “My childhood was spent in almost all of the boroughs except Manhattan. And for some reason, I had a, I guess, a sense of what Manhattan looked like and felt like probably from television. And at eight years old, I drew a picture of the streets of Manhattan. I'm walking, I'm a little girl, I'm walking along with my mother. My mother, by the way, is wearing a very popular Barbie outfit of the time, an outfit called Tangerine Dream, which I really loved. I put her in that outfit. And despite not having a lot of time on the streets or any time on the streets of Manhattan, I drew it in quite good detail. There were buildings and buses and taxis, and I labeled everything. I labeled the cleaners cleaners and I labeled the bank bank. Labeled the taxi taxi”

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  8. “I lived there until I was about the middle of a third grade and we moved to Staten Island and I lived on Staten Island until I was in the fifth grade and a fifth grade. My parents got divorced. My mom took my brother and I was two and a half years younger than I am to Long Island.”

    2024-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #750: Neil Gaiman and Debbie Millman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  9. “Before she moved, she unloaded several boxes of mine that she had kept unbeknownst to me. And I went through everything quite gingerly. It was all sort of folded up very neatly and very tidily and came across an illustration that I did when I was about eight years old. And after I admired my handiwork, because I thought, wow, eight years old, I was like rocking the drawings. I realized that this particular drawing had predicted my whole life. And so I will try to explain this drawing as best as I can. And for some backstory, I am a native New Yorker. I was born in Brooklyn when I was about two years old. My parents took me to Howard Beach, Queens. I moved there before there were any sidewalks. That will give you a little bit of a sense of how old I am.”

    2024-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #750: Neil Gaiman and Debbie Millman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  10. “Well, I have somewhat of a pack rat mentality. I keep things, I'm a sentimentalist at heart, and I like to keep things from all different stages of my life. And I have boxes of journals and drawings and all sorts of report cards and you name it, I have it. Well, apparently I got this trait from my mother. A couple of years ago, did what a lot of good old Jews do. She moved from Queens, New York to Florida.”

    2024-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #750: Neil Gaiman and Debbie Millman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  11. “Oh, yes, I found that the very things that delight and excite. Some people are the same exact things that outrage others. It's really hard to please everybody all the time.”

    2024-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #750: Neil Gaiman and Debbie Millman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  12. “Executive is a great catch all. For a long time on Twitter, I had Debbie Millman as a girl until enough people said Debbie, you've really got to change that. And then I did.”

    2024-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #750: Neil Gaiman and Debbie Millman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  13. “Exactly. I found when I was working at Stirling brands, which I did for over two decades, I had resolved to just saying when I was filling out what I did on passport applications and things like that. I used to say executive. And that made sense.”

    2024-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #750: Neil Gaiman and Debbie Millman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  14. “That's a tough question. What do I say? Well, now I say that I'm a designer and sometimes if I'm feeling wordy, I'll say that I'm a designer and a writer and a podcaster and sometimes people look at me like, huh? Like, huh?”

    2024-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #750: Neil Gaiman and Debbie Millman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT