Francesco
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Francesco
Why barter and Embracing your ever changing job description
The section “a different kind of currency” speaks to why I believe in the usefulness of the skills bartering events we’re organising
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try contacting Vanessa Clarke to announce the directory on her podcast?
Damn and Embracing your ever changing job description
The one about inaction being more powerful than action is so true
One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.
Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.
... See moreAlex Tan • #032 Peeling Back
Can you be a designer or marketer in today’s economy and offer services that are unattached to money, that don’t promise a major financial benefit?
I know Instagram has lots of faults. I’m not going to sit here and pretend it’s perfect. But what got lost in the “I’m Leaving Social Media” discourse is that shunning a platform like Instagram does not make the job of growing a following, a business, an email list, a publication any easier.
nabeelqu.co • Nabeel S. Qureshi
Because people increasingly socialise online, there also has been an “actual erosion in social skills”. For younger people in particular, the loss of experience and opportunities throughout the pandemic has resulted in a lower appetite for social risk, he says: “They’re more comfortable texting than they are talking.”
Elle Hunt • I want community – but am I prepared to put the work in?
Everyone wants community but no one wants to build it
I mean, yes, I knew this, but having it elaborated with such brevity is exactly what I was looking for