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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Why couldn’t teachers be geniuses, though, geniuses forged via passion manifested through practice?
John Warner • Genius vs. Expertise
Being a cozy futurist is being aware that even when indubitably science & technology are cool, we can't forget about the lives of the users of said technology; the goal is a nice future, not just a technically advanced future.
José Luis Ricón (Artir) • Cozy futurism
What the humans like is responsiveness - by Sasha Chapin What the humans like is responsiveness
Sasha Chapinsashachapin.substack.comRemarks about where beauty can come from beyond the surface.
A frictionless, unresponsive life is simply not a human one—we are born troublemakers who need to make marks.
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 can’t help the world if they are never built by your organization. Your ability to explain your... See more
Scott Berkun • Design talent is a distraction
Raising Thoughtful & Curious Kids and Provocative Teaching Advice
Inspiring ability to make learning something difficult more rewarding. This man is a genius at making youth and learners feel great about failing.
If you’ve ever felt that you can’t focus on a task when you’re hungry — or that all you can think about is food — the neural evidence backs you up. Work from a few years ago confirmed that short-term hunger can change neural processing and bias our attention in ways that may help us find food faster.