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Hi NYPL! I am looking to beef up my reading resume with some “classics.” Only, time is precious and I don’t want to be bored out of my skull. What “classics” do you think a 21st century person can really dig into? (Interpret the phrase “classic” how you wish). Thank you NYPL!
nypl: Italo Calvino published a collection of essays entitled Why We Read the Classics in which he makes 14 points and then talks about them. There are many places that show his list of the 14 reasons why and while they are good and make enough sense, I think his justifications below them really enrich what he…
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Design Explosions: Mapping on iOS — Design Explosions — Medium
Design Explosions: Mapping on iOS — Design Explosions — Medium Design Explosions Issue #1: Mapping on iOS Hullo! Design Explosions is a new series by UX Launchpad, a one-day, hands-on, fun design class based in sunny Seattle. Today we’re going to use Google Maps and Apple Maps as a design lesson. **A crazy deep exploration…
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Residents May Have to Flee the São Paulo Water Crisis
Residents May Have to Flee the São Paulo Water Crisis dbreunig: The NYTimes writes: In a meeting recorded secretly and leaked to the local news media, Paulo Massato, a senior official at São Paulo’s water utility, said that residents might have to be warned to flee because “there’s not enough water, there won’t be water…
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publicartfund: “ art and creativity have much to offer the world outside the arts. artistic thinking is based on constant awareness of potentiality – of the idea that reality is malleable, relative, and that, through my actions, I can affect and change the world. art can touch people deeply; experience isn’t just in the head,…
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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,…