Shuya Gong
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Shuya Gong
The Emotional Logic of Capitalism
“Elaborating his alternative approach through an engagement with the semiotics of money and the genealogy of economy, Martijn Konings uncovers capitalism's emotional and theological content in order to understand the paradoxical sources of cohesion and legitimacy that it commands.”
Designing for Feel: Feel is not something we talk much about as digital product designers. It’s difficult to quantify in metrics or even describe in words, so it tends to fall to the bottom of a priority list. But we know it’s important. [...] The industrial designers talked about contours that felt gratifying in the hand and actions that provided... See more
(Not Boring) Software Inc. • The World's Most Satisfying Checkbox
Having 'potential' in your mind, feels better than failure in reality. This ego-cushion prevents millions from creating their life's work. Once you feel it- physically- that cushion becomes painful, like a tumor you have to remove. And you only get it out one way. By identifying not with goals, but with output. You should feel dead inside if you... See more
You don't need a goal, you need a theme:
"With a theme, happiness becomes more about how you behave rather than what you achieve. Life is not a series of wins and losses. Though our highs and lows may shock us, lift us up, and forever shape our memories, they do not define us. Most of life happens in the in-between,... See more
After years of floundering, I think I'm finally getting it: You get energy by spending it. The fuel tank metaphor is completely misleading. The body supplies energy to meet demand. The tank *expands* if you use a lot of fuel. In other words, biology is fundamentally antifragile
Gormtwitter.comUsing AI to Talk to the Dead
Some people are using artificial intelligence chatbots to create avatars of departed loved ones.
Dr. Stephenie Lucas Oney is 75, but she still turns to her father, William Lucas, for advice. How did he deal with racism, she wonders. How did he succeed when the... See more
instagram.comUsing AI to Talk to the Dead
Some people are using artificial intelligence chatbots to create avatars of departed loved ones.
Dr. Stephenie Lucas Oney is 75, but she still turns to her father, William Lucas, for advice. How did he deal with racism, she wonders. How did he succeed when the odds were stacked against him? The answers are rooted upon William Lucas’s experiences as a Black man, from Harlem, who made his living as a police officer, FBI agent and judge.
Oney listens to the answers, delivered in her father’s voice, on her phone, through an app powered by artificial intelligence. It generates responses based on hours of interviews conducted with William Lucas before he died, in May 2022.
the first time you do something that everyone in your social environment tells you is a bad idea, and it turns out you were right, is more psychoactive than any drug
Visakan Veerasamyx.comIncentive Architecture before Information Architecture - Abby Covert, Information Architect
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As you surface from an hour inadvertently frittered away on Facebook, you’d be forgiven for assuming that the damage, in terms of wasted time, was limited to that single misspent hour. But you’d be wrong. Because the attention economy is designed to prioritize whatever’s most compelling—instead of whatever’s most true, or most useful—it... See more