The Archdruid Report: Night Thoughts in Hagsgate
yesterday
What’s required instead is the less romantic but far more productive task of adapting in place: figuring out how, living where you live now, you can place much less of a burden on the biosphere, and help other people do the same thing. It probably has to be said that perfection isn’t a reasonable expectation here—there’s a long learning curve, and our culture and built environment place significant obstacles in the way—but a great deal can be done nonetheless
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yesterday
Some lessons learned while creating a cross-device design - Design
yesterday
A different take on the responsive paradigm. Argues that resizing shouldn't affect line width. Instead, resizing should affect margins first.
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yesterday
The shape of a listener - the jsomers.net blog
3 days ago
And the point is this: different people activate different parts of that complex. What I get to be, the parts of me I get to see—it depends so much on the shape of a listener.
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3 days ago
The Mindspace of Paul Scrivens: Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most...
8 days ago
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
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davinci
8 days ago
The Commencement Address That Won't Be Given - Robert Reich
10 days ago
Members of the Class of 2012,
As a former secretary of labor and current professor, I feel I owe it to you to tell you the truth about the pieces of parchment you’re picking up today.
You’re f*cked.
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As a former secretary of labor and current professor, I feel I owe it to you to tell you the truth about the pieces of parchment you’re picking up today.
You’re f*cked.
10 days ago
Web Design Manifesto 2012 – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
11 days ago
We can’t keep designing as we used to if we want people to engage with our content. We can’t keep charging for ads that our layouts train readers to ignore. We can’t focus so much on technology that we forget the web is often, and quite gloriously, a transaction between reader and writer.
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11 days ago
Good Mistakes
11 days ago
He made a lot of mistakes. But he made mistakes in good direction, so eventually he got to right answers
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11 days ago
Dieter Rams on Design
15 days ago
"To use design to impress, to polish things up, to make them chic, is no design at
all. This is packaging."
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all. This is packaging."
15 days ago
How to Write - Steinbeck
15 days ago
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It also interferes with flow and rhythm which can only come from a kind of unconscious association with the material.
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15 days ago
Triumph of the Default - The Technium
17 days ago
Systems are not neutral. They have natural biases. We tame the cascading choices we gain from accelerating technology by introducing small nudges — by deliberating embedding our own biases (also called a default) into the system here and there. We wield biases within inevitable technologies to aim them towards our common goals — increasing diversity, complexity, specialization, sentience, and beauty.
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17 days ago
Mindless Mad Men - Show reviews from Mindlessones.com
18 days ago
Great reviews! If you're watching Mad Men, you should be reading this.
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18 days ago
The Role of the 21st Century Designer | Drawar
18 days ago
"The designer today should not help to produce more — he has to help produce fewer and better things. There is a beauty, an aesthetic and philosophy of the less."
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18 days ago
Gold vs. Bitcoin | Libertarian News
21 days ago
Humanity needs a money that cannot be arbitrarily inflated and is created through the free enterprise system, but this does NOT necessitate that the money be backed by anything in particular.
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21 days ago
The Resilience Approach vs Minsky/Bagehot: When and Where to Intervene at Macroeconomic Resilience
21 days ago
As I have outlined in an earlier post, an approach that focuses on minimising the adaptive consequences of macroeconomic interventions implies that macroeconomic policy must allow the “river” of the macroeconomy to flow in a natural manner and restrict its interventions to insuring individual economic agents rather than corporate entities against the occasional severe flood
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economics
21 days ago
Recovery Failure in Spain and Italy.
21 days ago
Just a snap shot of how well our fearless leaders’ solutions are working. The Milan Index MIB Its highest ever point was 44 364 on the week of 14 May 2007 Its lowest ever was…
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21 days ago
New American Dream is Renting; Reflections on Renting Houses, Cars, Books, Clothes; Will Rentership Fuel the Next Boom? What About Home Prices?
23 days ago
Housing has now gone full circle. President Bush's "Ownership Society" has morphed into the "Rentership Society". The attitude applies to more than houses as noted in the Wall Street Journal article…
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23 days ago
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