RT @topfife: Obligatory tweet directing you towards @BruceS' essay on @stml's genius and The New Aesthetic. »

My favorite thing this week: @craigmod writes beautifully about Flipboard's design process and publishes it as a book

Wowza. The Two Things way of thinking is enlightening. I suggest you try it. /via @jasonsantamaria

well put

week 2 - solve existing problems

Reasons Not to Think Outside the Box via @lauraolin

@villetikkanen @osulop jotain, jotain ja ja jotain

A decade of sketching & prototyping digital products & services

duh

see how the monkey gets the peanut

helmi villeltä tämäkin

An exercise in retrospective futurism by Howard Rheingold

“If you’re at the cutting edge, then you’re going to bleed.”

HOW IS THE INTERNET CHANGING THE WAY YOU THINK?

on drawing and thinking

... to do with the two minds that govern creative expertise: the instinctual unconscious mind (the realm of relaxed concentration) and the thinking mind (the realm of deliberate practice). The tension between these two minds is both the key to and fatal flaw of human creativity...

with colored markers!

Henry Jenkins, director of the comparative media studies program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is also cited. He believes so-called digital immersion may be encouraging a new form of intelligence that is strengthened through collaboration with other people and machines. In a direct challenge to the conventional school syllabus, Tapscott argues that although it is still important that children have certain basic knowledge, the details, such as the date of the Battle of Hastings, are less important when they can be accessed instantly on the Web.

According to Burton, confidence in the unproven arises from the neurobiological reward systems our ancestors developed in order to be able to act decisively on the basis of abstractions and ambiguous information. When cavemen began relying on ideas — e.g., how to kill a woolly mammoth — their brains learned to have faith in thoughts and memories. Nowadays, the same reward systems provide us with the feelings of intellectual confidence needed to test certain hypotheses: whether light can bend (Crazy!), or a doomed marriage can work (Sure!). “Say hello,” Burton writes, “to abstract thought’s subliminal cheerleader.”