# Burton Rast # Hello, World. My name is [Burton Rast](https://www.linkedin.com/in/misterburton), and I'm a design leader, mentor, [artist](https://burtonrast.com/), investor, and [public speaker](https://misterburton.com/reel/). I'm passionate about designing and building in new ways, with new technologies. With this in mind, here are a number of things I've recently created: - [Meat Proxies](https://meatproxies.ai/) is a near-term speculative fiction about the future we're designing, a small game about a big problem. - [Agents Digest](https://agents.misterburton.com/) is a weekly roundup of autonomous AI agents. It compares paid tools with free and open-source alternatives. - [Demographic.Info](https://demographic.info/) visualizes U.S. Census data over time across America's 25 largest cities, with natural-language search to explore demographic data in a whole new way. - [NASA APOD AI Search](https://apod.misterburton.com/) is a natural-language AI search app for NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day archive, a daily series that has run for 31 years and now houses more than 11,000 photos. - [get merge](https://getmerge.ai/) is a daily AI & design news digest. An automated pipeline fetches stories from more than a dozen sources, merges and deduplicates overlapping coverage, and delivers one concise briefing each morning. - [Brevity](https://brevity.misterburton.com/) turns a YouTube URL into a concise AI summary in well-formatted markdown for easy skimming, quoting, and sharing. - My [AI-Powered Localization](https://misterburton.com/localization/) workflow automates translation and narration across 11 languages that cover over 75% of the world's population, as implemented throughout this site. - [Material Icons AI Browser](https://icons.misterburton.com/) is a fast, AI-first natural language interface for browsing Google's 4,000+ Material Design Icons. The collection automatically syncs with new icon releases. - [The Next Four Years](https://thenextfouryears.ai/) is the world's first novel that uses AI to rewrite itself every day per the 24-hour news cycle. (Project detail [here](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7379255114982686720/)) - [Lightroom Coach](https://lightroom.misterburton.com/) is a natural language AI teaching assistant I built into Adobe Lightroom. The plug-in uses Nano Banana Pro to analyze photos and automate edits, then explains each adjustment to help users understand and learn from the changes. - The [Anti-AI Writing Guide](https://aiwritingguide.misterburton.com/) is a pattern-based guide for producing natural, authentic text without common AI linguistic tells. The guide updates itself daily via the Claude API per Wikipedia's oft-edited *Signs of AI Writing* [article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing). - [PRD Builder](https://prd.misterburton.com/) allows you to visually build Product Requirements Documents for use in AI chatbots and vibe coding tools. Nothing is stored on the server, all data is local and private. - [Social Search](https://search.misterburton.com/) surfaces what people are saying across the web, ranked by relevance and engagement. Powered by the [last30days](https://github.com/mvanhorn/last30days-skill) skill. - [Plaintext Today](https://plaintext.today/) is a daily news digest that uses the Claude API to curate 10 stories from international wire services. Topics include science, technology, discovery, and human achievement. All signal, no noise. - [Strange Sessions](https://gpu.misterburton.com/) is a series of beautifully morphing strange attractors that I made to promote our company's recently launched speaker series. - The [Tantara Attractor](https://misterburton.com/tantara/) is a strange attractor I built to map how creative tension, logic, and paradigm shifts push against one another. - [Invading Space](https://invadingspace.misterburton.com/) is a remix of the classic *Space Invaders* where you're the aliens trying to blow up the cannons and invade the earth. Built on a custom [design system](https://misterburton.com/design-system/), this site automatically generates a Markdown mirror of every page via a [workflow](https://misterburton.com/markdown-mirror/) I designed. For more than a decade, I've been honored to lecture at conferences, companies, and universities, both home and abroad, about my work, my story, and the philosophies that inform my identity as a designer and leader. I am represented by [Luminary](https://www.thisisluminary.co/) and [Chartwell Speakers](https://www.chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/burton-rast/). I'm also a tireless creator of unintentionally moody imagery. [My photographs](https://www.instagram.com/misterburton/) have been featured by Apple, NBC, PetaPixel, Fstoppers, designboom, Cult of Mac, and CNN, among others. ✶✶✶✶ For curiosities and conversations, feel free to reach out via the below links. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/misterburton/) [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/misterburton/) [Contact](#) © misterburton LLC. All rights reserved.