Maria Popova

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931 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 22 Jun

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Design Matters with Debbie Millman · Maria Popova · 22 Jun 2026 podcast

And I took a night class.

I saved for three weeks eating store-brand tuna and oatmeal, the most nutritious, cheap food you could get.

And I took a night class and I built the ugliest website in the world.

Oh, my God.

You know what?

I think there are images, because there were static pages.

There were no blogs.

There were no databases.

You would literally put up like a bulletin on a cork board, put up the weekly edition, and then next Friday, take it down, put up the new one.

So I think there are screenshots of it somewhere.

Oh, no.

Terrible.

Anyway, so that is how it started.

Yeah.

I mean, I think because I only ever wrote for me to process my own life.

I mean, it was and is the record of what I'm thinking about, reckoning with.

It didn't make sense.

We don't live internally on those timelines.

We don't.

The inner life is not a hamster wheel.

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