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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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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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mostlysignssomeportents: Impossible Programs: a great lecture on some of computer science’s most important subjects Here’s a 40-minute video in which Tom Stuart gives a talk summarizing one of the chapters from him new book Understanding Computation, describing the halting state problem and how it relates to bugs, Turing machines, Turing completeness, computability, malware checking for various…
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hyperallergic: Jeremy Bailey has intense, questioning blue eyes. They peer at me from banner space as I wander across the far flung reaches of the Internet, trying my very best to ignore them. In one Facebook ad, he holds a geometric sculpture in his palm, inviting me to purchase a $25 tote bag printed with the…
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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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If dishwashers were Iphones
If dishwashers were Iphones mostlysignssomeportents: My latest Guardian column is design fiction in the form of an open letter from a dishwasher company whose kitchenware marketplace and Dish Rights Management system is under fire. * The Kitchen Store and Speckless Disher are the best dishwashing experience in the world Before the…
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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…