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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)
Hire more designers… A nostalgic share for the time way back when Sunday’s were for the infernal clash of design Twitter and product Twitter.
Currently reading about the history of automobiles in @parismarx’s book and I feel like we’re at a stage where these people are trying to do exactly the same type of selling utopia and lobbying the shit out of governments and multilateral orgs.
🚨 Red flag: When teams say their feature "makes it easier" to do something, rather than starting with the capability it adds and the problem it removes. "Make it easier" is a sign that validation, rather than research, is at work.
1/ The Library of Economic Possibility (LEP) is now live 🥳 Our mission is to advance public knowledge of innovative economic ideas for a thriving 21st century economy.
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The knowledge-base may be the part of LEP that I'm most excited about. You can explore and filter hundreds of insights from empirical research on these policies. For example, what's the research say about basic income's effect on entrepreneurship?
Shower thought: the concept of “prompt engineering” fails Ashby’s Law of Requisite Variety. The variety of the model and the variety of the user query both exceed the variety of the prompt by many orders of magnitude.
Check out our explainer...
Teams are defined by having a shared goal. When teams take on a stakeholder request to "build my idea" they downgrade the shared goal from solving problems to "we finished the work" and downgrade themselves to a workgroup individually measured on outputs.
LEP is up at @ProductHunt today for anyone who wants to explore + support:
@systemsdesign @kevinriggle lol
I talk w/ @FastCoDesign about dogma in UX and how it's emerged in my own work. I hope the essay gives designers, especially those who pride ourselves in doing "ethical" work, permission to question the rigid thinking that interferes with doing actual good
Great talk by the brilliant @davidwengrow. I'm finally reading "The Dawn of Everything" (more than halfway through), and it's pretty incredible. Wengrow and Graeber present an oceanic mass of evidence that our standard narrative of human history is wrong.
@De_Minimis Oh, and the wikipedia article on participatory design is quite good, actually 😄
Why goal cascades are harmful and what to do instead.
I'll just keep tapping the sign. Don't run a survey unless you have eliminated all other possible options for gathering the information.
I've been pretty head's-down and quiet about my work on the @ShopifyUX Polaris design system, but I want to share 2 things I've shipped that I'm proud of: rebooted Patterns pages and updated+expanded alt text guidelines 🤩⤵️ |
@systemsdesign The OG anti-PP rant
To walk through life. To crack open the world. 😭❤️ @craigmod
“Garbage language permeates the ways we think of our jobs and shapes our identities as workers. It is obvious that the point is concealment; it is less obvious what so many of us are trying to hide.” — @magicmolly
"OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be" "While the firm has always looked toward a future where AGI exists, it was founded on commitments including not seeking profits and even freely sharing code it develops, which today are nowhere to be seen"
@lrb23 there's a for vehicle EPS... I've had a look through it. Really didn't need to know all the things that are possible to control on a vehicle... your worst psychological thriller possible in real life
You can, though.
“The more each site tries to create its own little walled garden, the less valuable the open web becomes”
Deeply appreciate @craigmod's earnest and honest reflections on running a membership program. An odd membership program. But one that drives to a deeply ingrained creative through line: producing creative work
Personality types are a myth. Each trait exists on a continuum shaped like a bell curve. The MBTI is outdated. You're more likely to be an ambivert than an introvert or extravert. And you don't have to choose between being a thinker or a feeler.
Using “AI” to screen job applicants is deeply unethical. It’s pushing the responsibility onto a system that isn’t neutral, but is just clumsily using all the biases that went into its data set.
The strip plazas in the Toronto suburbs have some of the best food you can get anywhere in the world. Growing up I assumed this was normal and everywhere was like this:
I really enjoyed this episode of @techwontsaveus with @timnitGebru >>
Timnit Gebru founded the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, which analyzes the risks of AI systems. Gebru says there needs to be more oversight in the world of AI chatbots.
@timnitGebru is leading the way for #AIGovernance 💪🏾 Y’all better listen to her + do what she says, ya heard?!? Data citizenship is no longer an option. We’re in these digital streets together. Get started: Learn more abt DAIR:
@timnitGebru is leading the way for #AIGovernance 💪🏾 Y’all better listen to her + do what she says, ya heard?!? Data citizenship is no longer an option. We’re in these digital streets together. Get started: Learn more abt DAIR:
In this @60Minutes, Microsoft chairman Brad Smith says "its a screen its not a person." Then why do you keep on misleading people as to the capabilities of your products? Why did you endorse this manifesto by Sam Altman "planning for AGI and beyond"?
40 multiple choice questions you should be able to (eventually) answer about each item on your roadmap link:
Originally, user stories were an artifact for capturing the user's goals. Along the way, they turned into a way for teams to convince themselves users need more features. But even bad user stories contain a shred of value. You just have to invert them.
Bluesky AT protocol has a very clever way to specify custom domain @handles using DNS text records
Unironically "We can solve any problem by introducing an extra level of indirection."
I had a lot of fun teaching this course combining the practice of design research with complex systems theory. Curious if anyone knows of other programs where it might fit in?
current brain status, post-burrito:
Norlha's luxury Tibetan clothes look so beautiful. All the wool products are made from khullu, which is the soft, downy undercoat of a yak (sort of like the yak equivalent of cashmere). Fabrics are handloomed. IG: norlha_atelier website:
Ok, I get that the timing is weird but: When I was young I was afraid. I made music but mostly just for myself. But 2 yrs ago I started working on an album and today I'm releasing the first @onnujonuson song. Spotify: YouTube:
Ok, I get that the timing is weird but: When I was young I was afraid. I made music but mostly just for myself. But 2 yrs ago I started working on an album and today I'm releasing the first @onnujonuson song. Spotify: YouTube:
Last night, Sauce Gardner burned the cheesehead he took from Lambeau as part of his pitch to Aaron Rodgers to leave the Packers and join the #Jets. Breece Hall and Garrett Wilson were there too. (Full video: )
Since we published Stochastic Parrots two years ago, the issues discussed in it have only become more urgent and salient. Join me, @timnitGebru @mmitchell_ai @mcmillan_majora and an esteemed group of panelists for discussion and reflection, March 17 2023.
just finished a provisional layout for the homepage of —holy crap has css come along.
New on the blog: How AI and Crypto combined, are the future of the web
Today my friends and I are beyond happy to introduce the new Gowalla. We believe the time is right once again for a social app to connect us with our REAL friends in the REAL world. While you grab it, let me tell you why this means so much to me 👉 🧵1/x
“Writing is the process by which you realize that you do not understand what you are talking about. Importantly, writing is also the process by which you figure it out.”
got sick and had it hit a good bit last night so haven't been pushing much today. Decided to watch this talk that was hosted at The Stoa while doing some stretching this afternoon and it's got me quite stoked, fantastic vibes. Very worth the listen: