“If Othello really is that decent, honest, and credulous, if he can really have friends and be loved by a beautiful woman, the white characters in the play can’t accept it,” Spiro said. “Iago has to destroy him.”
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/theater/2015/11/why_is_othello_black_understanding_why_shakespeare_made_his_hero_a_moor.single.html
“There are no best practices – only very good practices given a certain context” – Udi Dahan
“…the idea that a best practice exists presupposes that it is the best thing you can do in any situation. In reality, what it often means is that the practice has worked in the person’s previous experience.”
“…If you’re under the impression that some practice is best always, you may not spend the time to think about whether or not it’s actually helping you in your current situation.”
http://dandonahue.net/professional/2015/11/07/there-are-no-best-practices.html
“…The rot we’re seeing in Twitter is the rot of participatory media devolved into competitive spheres where the collective ‘we’ treats conversational contributions as fixed print-like identity claims,” Bonnie Stewart writes.
“In other words, on Twitter, people say things that they think of as ephemeral and chatty. Their utterances are then treated as unequivocal political statements by people outside the conversation. Because there’s a kind of sensationalistic value in interpreting someone’s chattiness in partisan terms, tweets “are taken up as magnum opi to be leapt upon and eviscerated, not only by ideological opponents or threatened employers but by in-network peers.” ”
“Anthropologists who study digital spaces have diagnosed that a common problem of online communication is “context collapse.” This plays with the oral-literate distinction: When you speak face-to-face, you’re always judging what you’re saying by the reaction of the person you’re speaking to. But when you write (or make a video or a podcast) online, what you’re saying can go anywhere, get read by anyone, and suddenly your words are finding audiences you never imagined you were speaking to.”
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/conversation-smoosh-twitter-decay/412867/
“…The hero in your life is never going to be the person who pats you on the head: it’s going to be the person who puts their own need to be liked aside to make you a better designer. And no, someone doesn’t need to understand you or your project 100% before they have the right to say anything about it. The person who doesn’t get you or what you made is the one that is most likely to come up with the idea or the insight that you can’t come up with on your own. People who see things differently are gold.”
“So next time someone is giving you feedback about something you made, think to yourself that to win means getting two or three insights, ideas, or suggestions that you are excited about, and that you couldn’t think up on your own. Lead the conversation until you get there. Ask real questions that tell you something that you didn’t know already. Say “tell me more.” Let them wander, tell stories, not understand, be irrelevant — take as long as it takes to listen for the pieces that make you better.”
https://deardesignstudent.com/why-is-so-much-of-design-school-a-waste-of-time-39ec2a1aa7d5
“So, converting the world into numbers in order to process and make decisions about it: we are becoming our computers…” — Andrew Smith
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/06/twitter-teetering-pyramid-scheme-social-media
“That conversation was typical of our highly educated tribe — for us to imagine something is good, it has to be good for us.”
“College is run by those of us who did well in college, so we tend to underestimate the harm we do to students whose lives aren’t like ours, harm created not out of malice but habit.” — Clay Shirky
https://medium.com/@cshirky/the-digital-revolution-in-higher-education-has-already-happened-no-one-noticed-78ec0fec16c7
Platform Cooperativism: The Internet Needs a New Economy
http://www.thenextsystem.org/the-internet-needs-a-new-economy/
“Hellerstein uses one of the most common examples to explain bottlenecks—the freeway system. These are pathways that are built for the capacity for many people to go at 70 mph and, in theory, this should be the case. Actually, there are lane changes, car troubles, accidents—and soon enough, there is not enough coordination between vehicles for anyone to move along the lines of true capacity. “The coordination and feedback from that coordination ripples through the system.”
” The question then is, how do we build systems where everything stays in the right lane, where the processors don’t have to talk to each and make sure they’re not stepping on each other’s toes, where the databases don’t have to make sure two people aren’t updating the same record in two different places. This overhead of coordination is what is slowing systems down today.”
“That coordination issue is being dealt with in some interesting ways. With the highway theme in mind, the idea is that every participant in the traffic flow could move at capacity if permitted to keep operating. If all the coordination (changing of lanes, so to speak) could happen in the background and update in sync with the rest of the system, things move along nicely. This sounds simple in theory—but we all know why the highway traffic metaphor is so persistent in computer science. Because it’s still essentially an unsolved problem.”
http://www.nextplatform.com/2015/11/05/for-future-systems-coordination-is-the-next-big-bottleneck/
“The Query — what I want”
The Social Graph — who I am, who I know
The Status Update — what I’m doing, what’s happening
The Check-In — where I am
The Purchase — what I buy
The Bookmark – represents what we wish for“
“…And that’s why, compared to the other signals that comprise the Database of Intentions — The Query, The Social Graph, The Status Update, The Check-In, and The Purchase — The Bookmark can be frustrating.
The Social Graph and The Purchase map the past;
The Query, The Status Update, and The Check-In map the present.
They’re accurate. They’re reliable. They’re sensible.
They’re also limited.
Past is almost always prelude, but it doesn’t capture the ways in which we’re willing to change.”
https://medium.com/@dianakimball/save-for-later-b2fa64782078
“Generation X found success in owning stuff.”
“Millennials have defined success as owning social relationships.”
“…Millennials have been born into a time where they must bear the brunt of social media anxiety.”
“They are the first to see the world through a social lens where every moment is harnessed for sharing. There is a debt of social activity they must constantly keep up with. Have I read all the Facebook posts? Did I see all the Instagram photos? Have I let my social network down?”
https://medium.com/@digidave/millennials-got-a-raw-deal-with-social-media-a63f85b52ac6
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