May 2013
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“At first glance it may be surmised that the contestants of evolutionary games...”
– Evolutionary game theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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“At no time in the history of humankind have more positions of power been...”
– Learning to Love Volatility: Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the Antifragile - WSJ.com
“A rigid business plan gets one locked into a preset invariant policy, like a...”
– UNDERSTANDING IS A POOR SUBSTITUTE FOR CONVEXITY (ANTIFRAGILITY) | Edge.org
“Taleb’s writings discuss the error of comparing real-world randomness with the...”
– Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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TELEPORTATION NOW →
Stop what you’re doing right now, scientists, and figure out teleportation.
I started a new Tumblr. Recommendations welcome.
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April 2013
“The human mind is capable of being excited without the application of gross and...”
– The folly of sensationalism: William Wordsworth on the news … in 1798. (via explore-blog)
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Vaginas of Science, Vaginas of Justice:... →
This is a bit outside the normal scope of my blog, but it’s an excellent talk on sexual tropes, narratives, and reality. I absolutely recommend.
“If someone were to ask me what the secret of my writing is, I would say, first I...”
– Camille Paglia, ArtsATL Q&A (via lulclipfile)
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“You’ve probably seen TV journalists asking soft questions to politicians...”
– Autobiography of Julian Assange: Truth Serum
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“With an unprecedented amount of available text, our problem is not needing to...”
– Uncreative Writing - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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“Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are...”
– 882. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945). Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989
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“The longer you’re a bad listener, the smaller your world gets and the narrower...”
– Rands In Repose: You’re Not Listening
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“In the fall of 1960, during his second year of graduate school, Ted Nelson found...”
– howard rheingold’s | tools for thought
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“The World Wide Web was precisely what we were trying to PREVENT— ever-breaking...”
– Ted Nelson
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“Touching base with an old acquaintance is all about catching up. If I haven’t...”
– Why I love Twitter and barely tolerate Facebook, by Matt Haughy
As you get older, you care less about the day-to-day minutiae of your peers or former acquaintances. You may care more about your family, or your new friends, or yourself, or you may just be focusing on other non-people things, but at...
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Where to Find Open Data on the Web →
Nice list from ReadWriteWeb.
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“Yet psychologically, we all — all of us – have this dramatically different...”
– The Single Most Stunning Fact About the Boston Bombing
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Why you almost ran into that jogger, or that biker...
When I’m not walking—and oh, how much I walk!—I run and ride my bike. And weirdly, when I ride or run, people constantly almost run into me. In two different ways, too:
When I’m running, walkers either maintain a straight line—straight into me—or, puzzlingly, slowly drift over towards me. If they drift, they start pretty consistently around the 30 foot mark.
When I’m biking,...
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Why Dove's "Real Beauty Sketches" Video Makes Me...
“And my primary problem with this Dove ad is that it’s not really challenging the message like it makes us feel like it is. It doesn’t really tell us that the definition of beauty is broader than we have been trained to think it is, and it doesn’t really tell us that fitting inside that definition isn’t the most important thing. It doesn’t really push back against the constant...
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“It’s Wednesday at 12:30 in downtown Manhattan. Good starting point; we know New...”
– Designing Exploration — Design Startups — Medium
Great writeup by my colleague Anthony Smith on how Foursquare creates recommendations for its users.
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“Want to make people run? Don’t give them a badge for running. Give them a ball...”
– Kill it With Fire: why Gamification sucks and Game Dynamics rule | Philip Trippenbach
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“The interior of behavior change and building better habits is your identity....”
– Identity-Based Habits: How to Actually Stick to Your Goals This Year
Less than a year ago today, I ran a mile a day for a week. The first day, I told my friend that I hated running. Now, I run at least three miles weekdays, more on the weekends, and running is one of my favorite things in my life:...
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“As Stephenson has pointed out, a good science fiction story can save us from...”
– Hieroglyph: Neal Stephenson project from ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination imagines new sci-fi.
The concise version of this.
“Most buildings are designed for some functional purpose, but ours is structured...”
– How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity - Harvard Business Review
“We’ve gotten pretty good at being able to subconsciously influence and alter...”
– Emerging technologies are creating new ethical challenges for UX designers — Tech News and Analysis
“With an entire body at your command, do you seriously think the Future Of...”
– A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
“We also decided it would be great to know what kinds of alerts were happening...”
– Kicker Studio | Artificial Muscle: Designing for Haptics
My immediate thought: is this a problem that needs to be solved? Are people missing that much data from their phone?
“Except for one small thing: While the data shows that I lead a pretty boring...”
– Coffee & Empathy: Why data without a soul is meaningless — Tech News and Analysis
I’ve over-beaten my drum on this point, but it’s nice to see these views being discussed everywhere right now.
“Encouraging women and people of color to take more risks and be more aggressive...”
– The Rewards Of Being White, Male And A Rule Breaker
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“…dissonance theory explains why some really long books have such good...”
– When your actions contradict your beliefs « Mind Hacks
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“Ed Annunziata, the developer [of Ecco the Dolphin], said on Twitter that...”
– Ecco the Dolphin , Wikipedia
“If we know that our fictive user is following a “If someone I respect read this...”
– If… | Architectures | Dan Lockton I like this idea a lot, though I can’t imagine how we’d glean user intent so confidently. Ask them, maybe?
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“Startups are run by people who do what’s necessary at the time it’s...”
– The Silent Partner, a really wonderful interview about Jason Goldman, product manager at Twitter, and cofounder of Obvious Corp.
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“SxSW 2013: Behavior Change as Value Proposition”
– SxSW 2013: Behavior Change as Value Proposition
Excellent talk. Definitely worth a look-through if you’re a designer interested in doing something with all this data we’ve created.
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“Stop telling people you’re learning to code unless they’re technical...”
– Want to learn to code? Start here. | Zack Shapiro
I would agree that telling people you’re going to do a thing might actually hijack your goal; there is some evidence to back up this theory.
March 2013
“You shouldn’t have to put files in directories. The directories should reach out...”
– Edge: THE SECOND COMING — A MANIFESTO By David Gelernter
“Today’s operating systems and browsers are obsolete because people no longer...”
– Edge: THE SECOND COMING — A MANIFESTO By David Gelernter
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