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@librarythingtim @jeffmacintyre So *this* explains why looks the way it does on my phone 😂 (Also, hi from a fellow Portland Mainer!)
RT @mulegirl: A huge source of confusion in design research is the difference between research questions and interview questions. This costs time and money and I rarely see other people talking about it.
Sustainable Data by Jan Chipchase What is Reading For? by Robert Bringhurst
Sustainable Data by Jan Chipchase What is Reading For? by Robert Bringhurst
Surprised, unsurprised, and delighted by the patterns which connect Christopher Alexander's Nature of Order, Bateson, cybernetics, etc. I haven't read Nature of Order, but I'm getting a tantalizing taste through @doriantaylor's The Nature of Software.
@doriantaylor Getting a 403 forbidden error when trying to use 🤔
@Carnage4Life The global pandemic has been quite the confounding variable. There’s so much fraud & snake oil in targeted advertising. The bubble has been getting ready to burst for over a decade. I worked in, with, and on adtech just long enough to see it and get out.
@suresh_dot_com @Carnage4Life Good point. This piece explores some of that data. As far as I can tell, it appears ATT is a very convenient scapegoat. Relatedly, I've never seen an equitable behavioral targeting ad campaign outperform opted-in demographic/contextual/geo/tech targeting
Very much missing @sayhi and these days. It wasn’t the platform we deserved, but it was so nourishing. Anything like it out there now? @craigmod
@doriantaylor Prescient:
I think about this a lot. Brings to mind @frank_chimero’s From the Porch to the Street: “…there is some value to Twitter, but the social musing we did early on no longer fits.” “…if you’ve been on Twitter a while, it’s changed out from under you.”
“When I choose to see the good side of things, I’m not being naive. It is strategic and necessary.” Haven’t seen the movie but this resonates deeply.
“Solve a puzzle by gaining a new understanding of relationships between elements. Experience creative breakthrough after re-framing a situation. Understand a challenging concept after finding an analogy that integrates new ideas into existing knowledge.”
“Big data is not a priority anymore, in my opinion,” said Stanford computer science professor Carlos Guestrin. “You can solve complex problems with little data.”
@janchip @cityofsound @theasnow I'm also interested in buying a physical copy. I found the PDF of Designing Missions on the Vinnova site.
@halvorson @BrainTraffic Are you familiar with Content Strategy 101 Kristina? 🥲
Relatedly, the relational planning model is a fascinating adjacent rabbit hole.
The comprehensive organization and analysis of the information The potential consequences of each option The probability that each potential outcome would materialize The value (or utility) placed on each potential outcome
Can't have one without the other.
"Web 1.0 started as a streaming publish-to-read medium; web 2.0 has established itself as a publishing platform for everyone. Now web 3.0 is said to be a technologically advanced Internet, where the user executes and the machines do the thinking."
Unfettered brilliance
Industrial and organizational psychology is a worthwhile rabbit hole.
@mulegirl I have been evaluating the business case for starting an import company just to bring their sub-brand’s totes to the United States. I have like 20 Toyo boxes 🫣.
@jcolman Reminds me of @tejucole’s “FABLE” post about another noise monster in 2016
RT @swardley: HBR is comically bad -"How to Communicate Your Company’s Strategy Effectively" . Opening image is a map of a playing field and then it completely fails to discuss any form of maps. PS. Secret is in the map, that's why we use them from sports to military.
GPT3 could learn a thing or two from On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt: “Bullshit is speech intended to persuade without regard for truth.”
RT @PavelASamsonov: Recording of my talk at @ProductMakers is now up! Gathering my random thoughts into a single presentation from across years of tweeting was really helpful to organize my thinking, and hopefully it makes sense to other people too.
RT @FiloSottile: Folks, the time to run or is now. You don't need to have an account elsewhere yet. Download the CSVs while you can, and you can import them later. go go go go
RT @FiloSottile: Folks, the time to run or is now. You don't need to have an account elsewhere yet. Download the CSVs while you can, and you can import them later. go go go go
Did @Twitter layoff or overrule everyone who has a basic understanding of HCI, design research, and idk, people? Hmu on Mastodon.
Today is ten years since we lost @aaronsw. "No, you can’t force other people to change. You can, however, change just about everything else. And usually, that’s enough."
RT @eaton: Sometimes you get so angry about an idea that you actually update the company blog.
@johncutlefish This looks like a company approved video overview of the tool from a couple years ago, in case it may be helpful
@deanchahim Systems thinking helps. E.g. and Meadows’ greater body of work. Also see
RT @CAldenJacobs: @librarythingtim I remember going on and on about this idea in 2010 when @craigmod published Books in the Age of the iPad. Bookstores should be third places! Third places should be bookstores!
@leila_c on Ego and Altruism (updated link)