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“This is one of the questions that Peter Reinhardt, CEO and co-founder of Segment, asks in a timely post, Replacing Middle Management with APIs. Services like Uber replace a layer of task management with software APIs. Customers use an app interface to enter their data into the system. Reinhardt represents this in pseudocode as: uber.drive(card,…
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Asking for things is hard.
adrianparsons: After being laid off, an ex-coworker asked me to write a recommendation for him on LinkedIn. I didn’t hesitate to say “yes”. A few weeks later, a friend trying to grow her career as a comedian asked me to retweet her latest joke. I didn’t hesitate to say “yes”. I was surprised when I…
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it’s a(door)able
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prostheticknowledge: Dreeps iOS game is an RPG with minimal involvement – you set an alarm clock for when you and your character wish to awaken after sleep, and you can observe the journey of your character throughout the day: For you who don’t have time anymore to play RPG, “Alarm Playing Game” is a new…
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Explaining his ideas to Japan Times in 2001, Ekuan said, “Design to me has always meant making people happy. Happy in the sense of creating items that provide comfort, convenience, function, aesthetics and ethics. I used to do a lot of research, fieldwork, wanting to understand the psychology of human needs and response.”
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Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive. Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective…