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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Benjamen Zander - Leadership on Display
youtube.comRaising 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.
“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 conversationalist is like. A lot of people think a good conversationalist is someone who can tell funny stories. That’s a raconteur, but it’s not a conversationalist. A lot of people think a good
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“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 says. “We have made a virtue out of destroying everything of value,” he says. “It’s associated with being successful and selling a company for money. But it’s too easy—in three weeks we could break... See more
Jony Ive • Jony Ive on Life After Apple
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.
quantamagazine.org • The Brain Has a ‘Low-Power Mode’ That Blunts Our Senses | Quanta Magazine
How to Motivate Kids to Practice Hard Things
greatergood.berkeley.edu
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 doesn’t stink - Carl J. Pearson, PhD
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.