Charlie Gedeon
@charliegedeon
Reflecting on how learning and creativity are shaped by technology and our interactions with it. Co-founder of Pragmatics Studio, a small digital design studio in Montreal.
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Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.... See more
David Foster Wallace,
Nix š ā¢ carry yourself lightly
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Itās only by concentrating, sticking to the question, being patient, letting all the parts of my mind come into play, that I arrive at an original idea. By giving my brain a chance to make associations, draw connections, take me by surprise. And often even that idea doesnāt turn out to be very good. I need time to think about it, too, to make mistakes and recognize them, to make false starts and correct them, to outlast my impulses, to defeat my desire to declare the job done and move on to the next thing.
Your success as a designer depends equally on your relationships as it does on your design talent . The powerful people you need as allies will likely know little about design and you will have to teach and persuade them. Your amazing ideas and concepts canāt help the world if they are never built by your organization. Your ability to explain your... See more
Scott Berkun ā¢ Design talent is a distraction
Bad UX research does not stink. Anyone without training can create poor research and the output looks just as convincing to the untrained eye. This is the reason why UX research uniquely feels the push for democratization.
Bad research doesnāt stink - Carl J. Pearson, PhD
I used to value myself based on how fast I was learning and the breadth of the ground I was covering. This was a way to escape my own perfectionism ā which caught up to me as soon as I started focusing on only one thing. Iām learning itās a skill to sit with your mistakes, ask for help, and move slower and more deliberately.
Molly Mielke ā¢ deliberate
āAs Iāve tried to understand how to become a better conversationalist, Iāve found that Iāve had to overcome weird ideas about what a good conversationalist is like. A lot of people think a good conversationalist is someone who can tell funny stories. Thatās a raconteur, but itās not a conversationalist. A lot of people think a good
... See moreWhen you try to make something that solves everything, you obsess over questions of power: how to make something that is omnipotent and everlasting. But when you make something that does one thing well, the questions are much more personal: does it solve my problem? and for how long? and who for? and where will it push the space around it? I want... See more
Elan Ullendorff ā¢ Be specific
Cantillon argued that the origin of entrepreneurship lies in the lack of perfect foresight individuals have about the future. Rather than consider this lack of foresight a defect of the market system, Cantillon accepted it as part of the human condition. Uncertainty is a pervasive fact of everyday life, and those who must deal with it continually... See more
reactionwheel.net ā¢ Embracing Uncertainty in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy | Reaction Wheel
People around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular moment is a statement of their permanent desires.