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Suppose you are in a unit with 10 other people. Your boss thinks every one of you is spectacular. Well it doesn’t matter because at Microsoft, you have to designate two of them as spectacular, four of them as mediocre, and then the rest as terrible. What you’ve done is create a system where every…
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the unreachable barrier between I and not-I: Cybernetics
the unreachable barrier between I and not-I: Cybernetics nminusone: ‘Cybernetics is a transdisciplinary approach for exploring regulatory systems, their structures, constraints, and possibilities. Cybernetics is relevant to the study of mechanical, physical, biological, cognitive, and social systems. Cybernetics is only applicable when the…
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notational: therealityinstitute: What may be the world’s first cybernetic hate crime unfolds in French McDonald’s George Dvorsky, io9.com Steve Mann, the “father of wearable computing,” has been physically assaulted while visiting a McDonalds in Paris, France. The Canadian university professor was at the restaurant with his family when three different McDona… I could see this…
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notational: “The trick to fostering collective creativity, Catmull says, is threefold: Place the creative authority for product development firmly in the hands of the project leaders (as opposed to corporate executives); build a culture and processes that encourage people to share their work-in-progress and support one another as peers; and dismantle the natural barriers that…
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suddenly: Creepola. What’s even scarier is I think I had one as a kid (by wackystuff)
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I remember a negative review of Maggie Nelson’s book on cruelty saying that it read like a Tumblr. And I remember thinking – oh man, that would be awesome. It’d be amazing if our essays were like Tumblrs – and took from that project of authenticity, immediacy, rhythmic juxtapositions, voice, aphorisms, fragments. Walter Benjamin’s Arcades…
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Eminent Harvard labor economist Larry Katz sees a future where many lower-skilled workers are employed in the service sector supporting America’s innovative class. But he sees it as an open question as to whether these service jobs will be as sales clerks and lawn hands, or fashion consultants and landscape designers. Katz refers to these…
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artlistpro: Like/make crap now The Crap Show via sin-sin-sin via dingeundsachen:
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laphamsquarterly: theatlantic: Coffee: Preventing Scurvy Since 1650 In 1650, St. Michael’s Alley, London’s first coffee shop, placed an ad in a newspaper. That ad — archived in the British Museum, and Internet-ed by the Vintage Ads LiveJournal — extolled the many Vertues of the newly discovered beverage. Which “groweth upon little Trees, only in the Deserts…
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Caligraft
Caligraft notational: A portfolio of typographic experiments using Processing by Ricard Marxer Piñón . Includes source codes.