Year: 2015

“…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

“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

“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

“It’s a City that keeps changing, not a museum for one’s own personal nostalgia.”

“…Now it seems, we are going Medici. Reduce public support, create huge pots of wealth, with reduced tax burden. Then those folks who’ve got increased cash because of reduced tax burden hand out cash to medicine and the arts and poor folk…and they are considered philanthropists.”

http://abeastinajungle.com/sf-election-results/

“From 1975-1980 Activist Adam Purple Built a Circular Urban Garden in New York that ‘Knocked Down’ the Surrounding Buildings”


“…Over period of five years, Purple worked continuously to build a concentric garden that would eventually grow to 15,000 square feet. As nearby abandoned structures were torn down the garden continued to grow, a process he metaphorically likened to a garden that knocked down the buildings around it. He physically hauled bricks and building materials away from the site, and hauled in manure from the horses in Central Park.


“The Garden of Eden not only provided safe haven to the community, but also produced food in the form of corn, berries, tomatoes, and cucumbers. By the early 80s it had become a famous and beloved landmark in the Lower East Side.


“Unfortunately the city of New York never officially recognized Purple’s garden. While other local parks were clearly marked on official city maps, the Garden of Eden space was always labeled as ‘vacant’. Despite pleas from the community, the entire garden was razed with bulldozers in just 75 minutes on January 8, 1986 to make way for development.”

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/10/garden-of-eden/

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