Charlie Gedeon
@charliegedeonReflecting 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.charliegedeon.com
"If we turn this wonderful technology we have for knowledge into a weapon for disinformation," he told me, "we are in deep trouble." Why? "Because we
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
Anyhow, the older I get, the less impressed I become with originality. These days, I’m far more moved by authenticity. Attempts at originality can oft
If you're small, you're in a position where it's to your advantage to be weird—you can have a point of view that the big tech companies never could. I
“I don’t know anything about business,” Ive demurs, but he abhors the current fascination with disruption. “I’m not interested in breaking things,” he
If you go too far off the beaten path of algorithmic consistency, you risk never being heard. You may never get enough cultural momentum to exist in a
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
“As I’ve tried to understand how to become a better conversationalist, I’ve found that I’ve had to overcome weird ideas about what a good conversation