Laura Pike Seeley
@laurapikeseeley
Laura Pike Seeley
As designers, it is our responsibility to explore the discomfort zone, design holistically, and consider the full range of possibilities of what we create.
IDEO • To Design a Better Future, Embrace the Uncomfortable
Adopting a hacker’s mindset can help create a culture of pragmatism, valuing experimental and incomplete approaches.
Why Managers Should Think More Like Hackers
In the past few years, museums across the US, Europe, and Australia are trying to tackle the challenge of decolonizing their institutions. Museums are taking on this important work to try to make their museums reflect the diversity and the voices of the people within their collections and around them.
Museum Next • What does it mean to decolonize a museum?
Unconscious bias – the blind spot threatening organisational performance — Financier Worldwide
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In Deep Work, author and professor Cal Newport flips the narrative on impact in a connected age. Instead of arguing distraction is bad, he instead celebrates the power of its opposite.
Cal Newport • Cal Newport, New York Times Bestselling Author of Seven Books
With technology racing forward at an ever increasing pace, some advancements can impact us on an unprecedented scale. As shapers of the future, we must strive to understand the consequences and implications of emerging technology. We do this by asking ourselves uncomfortable questions about possible outcomes.
IDEO • To Design a Better Future, Embrace the Uncomfortable
Researchers find that the bias can shape people’s beliefs in at least one area: their attitudes towards diversity.
This cognitive bias can push people into more extreme ideological positions | BPS
Adopting a healthy scepticism towards inherited ideas means “emptying the container of the Self”, or perhaps exercising a kind of trained “forgetting” of that which is extraneous to the essential self. In this state, we become less prone to partaking in the superfluous occupations we impose upon ourselves to cope with the weight of social
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