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naranzarian: The Overthinking Person's Drinking Game

“When you experience a vague sense of inequity or deprivation but don’t have a template for whether your expectations are fair, drink.

When you aren’t sure whether the lingering sensation that you aren’t liked enough is a rational response to unfair circumstances or is in fact symptomatic of your…

Reblogged from naranzarian

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Because ultimately they know that learning to code isn’t about launching the idea they currently have in their heads. Very likely that idea sucks, and even if it doesn’t their execution of it is going to suck. What it is about is the product you come up with in 2 years, in 5 years. If you know how to code, you can build businesses for the rest of your life where the only cost is your time.

— Dan Shipper - http://danshipper.com/you-have-to-get-good-before-you-get-better (via joenandez)

Reblogged from Life and Code

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My basic issue is that the vast majority of the ‘creative industry’ is not making their own tools anymore as was the case with artisans (it was their defining characteristic) before the age of the industial revolution, or more fittingly, before the rise of desktop publishing. For the past 20 years, the vast majority of the creative industry has been supplied with tools by a handful of companies, which have become the de facto standard or lowest common denominator between players in this industry. I’m a big believer in the truth of Kenneth Boulding’s statement: ‘We make our tools and they shape us.’

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—Karsten Schmidt (via scigraph)

Wow, a new origin for the phrase at the end. I had previously attributed it to Marshall McLuhan.

(via notational)

Reblogged from Notational

hurrah! The website I built for El Nido cabins in Tieton is now live and loosed upon the world.

art-blerchin:

elnidotieton.com is the web presence for El Nido, a small but lovely enclave of cabins for rent at the heart of the growing arts community in Tieton, WA. Guests are mostly weekend visitors and workshop participants from other areas of the Pacific Northwest, but also include artists and writers seeking an extended, distraction-free retreat.

Built on the Posterous platform, the site leverages a simple CMS and minimizes visual clutter. The focus is therefore on descriptive text and images of the property, which can be rotated seasonally. A prominent news feed encourages visitors to check back frequently for special events and subscribe to updates via social media. A classic typeface and simple aesthetic reflect the understated elegance of the cabins and their timeless surroundings.

Reblogged from Ben Lerchin

(via Innovation Under Austerity: Eben Moglen’s call to arms from the Freedom to Connect conference - Boing Boing)

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For many years, I have told students, “Do not do what I do; rather, take whatever I have to offer and do with it what I could never imagine doing and then come back and tell me about it.” My hope is that colleges and universities will be shaken out of their complacency and will open academia to a future we cannot conceive.

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Restructure the curriculum, beginning with graduate programs and proceeding as quickly as possible to undergraduate programs. The division-of-labor model of separate departments is obsolete and must be replaced with a curriculum structured like a web or complex adaptive network. Responsible teaching and scholarship must become cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural.

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End the University as We Know It - NYTimes.com

Bracing article that among other things, calls for an end to tenure (and that from a tenured professor). Without tenure, I would not have the freedom to experiment in the classroom, to try novel ideas. I do not believe that all who are tenured are ossified. I do understand very well the tendency toward ossification. Different pressures would be brought to bear in a non-tenured system. Popularity contests and comforting assurances will win out.

(via rafaelfajardo)

Reblogged from Notational

futurejournalismproject:

Let’s agree to agree on something: When breaking news about priests abusing young boys, don’t juxtapose the story with a young boy looking happy about it.

Image: Front Page, The Liverpool Echo.

Reblogged from The FJP

(via Modkit Micro: The Easiest Way to Program Microcontrollers by Modkit — Kickstarter)

futurejournalismproject:

How to Think About Our Networked World

On this Memorial Day weekend, Nieman Lab’s Joshua Benton recommends you mix up your relaxation hours with some videos of smart people saying smart things.

We second that suggestion, and offer you (the above): a brilliant animated video by Manuel Lima, Senior UX Design Lead at Microsoft Bing, and founder of VisualComplexity.com, based on a talk he gave at RSA.

via RSA:

He visits the RSA to explore a critical paradigm shift in various areas of knowledge, as we stop relying on hierarchical tree structures and turn instead to networks in order to properly map the inherent complexities of our modern world. The talk will showcase a variety of captivating examples of visualization and also introduce the network topology as a new cultural meme.

Lima says:

Even more than the idea of repping these complex systems is the need for a new way of thinking. And this new way of thinking is about this pluralistic way of thinking that everything is interconnected, everything is interdependent. We are almost going back to the polymath, the Renaissance man mentality that it’s not just about being a specialist in one area, you need to know a little bit of everything. Or at least create outbound ties that you are able to learn from other disparate areas. And I think this is the most beautiful aspect of knowledge that we can take into consideration by looking at this networked thinking. It’s more important even that we make that mental shift because I think there is immense benefit that can come from this network outlook of the world itself.

FJP: GigaOm/paidContent 2012 had a lot to do with this same way of thinking—the theme this year was focused on convergence. (See our Storify of the event here.) I think Lima’s perspective on interconnectedness is useful not only to creators, professionals, and journalists, but to all of us, as citizens, siblings, parents, friends, listeners, speakers, and thinkers. See his talk here, and Twitter feedback here.