January 2012
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“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple...”
– John Gall’s Systemantics: How Systems Really Work and How They Fail
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“For the past couple of years, we have gotten into the habit of presuming that...”
– A List Apart: What I Learned About the Web in 2011
“I think all the heretics I have known have been virtuous men. They have the...”
– Benjamin Franklin
Why does nobody talk like this anymore?!?!
Change is good, donkey →
Never get too comfortable.
I was reminded of this with the Google redesign(s) in 2011. Even though they weren’t a total shock (it was about time), they still made me entirely uncomfortable.
This is, in part, because Google is as central to getting around today as the U.S. Interstate Highway System once was. And when a change is made, it impacts, in a crucial way, the way we navigate.
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“Actually, you know, businesses aren’t machines. Homo Economicus doesn’t actually...”
– Ten questions for Mark Earls.
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Ossington
me: where are we going?
jon: somewhere on ossington
jon: likely the ossington
me: So the ossington on ossington.
me: Thats in the ossington district right?
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“There’s certainly a whose-is-bigger element to the recent height craze,...”
– The World’s Next 20 Tallest Skyscrapers
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“How many SEO experts do you need to change a lightbulb lightbulbs buy light...”
– (via clientsfromhell)
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December 2011
57 posts
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“In a 2010 paper published in the Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society,...”
– Nicholas Hune-Brown: How to die on Facebook
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“Finally, the maps underscore how much geography still matters. Film exports...”
– Remapping your strategic mind-set
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“This is what we tend to forget when we talk about journalism’s evolution: The...”
– Yet another reason The Economist is trouncing competitors » Nieman Journalism Lab
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“Whether or not schools perceive a problem, they have no choice but to embrace...”
– How bullying became the crisis of a generation