Bianca Aguilar

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designer, educator, writer, learner

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“If you have to explain why a typeface is beautiful, then it isn’t.”

Brian Ng • Revolutionary type: Meet the designer decolonizing Chinese fonts

You can’t master this Game alone. People level up by going from playing for themselves to playing for and with others. Only together will we be able to tackle our main quest: creating a world for human flourishing.

Reboot • Level Up

Nature of Code

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Generative Art 101

The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West

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Cross-Cultural Design

"If you look at say, Twitter, where 50% of young people are very active in Saudi Arabia, the most popular Twitter accounts are often imams themselves, because there's a lot of competition amongst these religious leaders to get the young people's attention."

Payal Arora • The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West

The Versatile PhD | Helping graduate students and PhDs envision, prepare for, and excel in non-academic careers since 1999

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Reconstructing the PhD

So why do runners have limits? And why do the limits differ from one person to the next? In part, it's because of physiological factors: blood oxygen levels, lactate, muscular strength, each of which has a genetic component. But there's another theory, put forward by a sports physiologist named Tim Noakes. As he puts it, in what he calls the... See more

Being an Athlete

I USED TO think of athletic ability as a mountain. You're born at the base, and you'll die there too. In between, you climb higher and higher until you begin to descend. But that analogy isn't quite right, because as you get older you acquire wisdom that can help you train. I've come to realize that a better analogy is of rolling peaks. You go up,... See more

Being an Athlete