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The Vignelli Canon
The Vignelli Canon outlines fundamental design principles, emphasizing semantics, syntactics, and pragmatics, along with the importance of discipline, appropriateness, and visual power for effective and timeless design practices.
rit.eduAre You Experiencing Posting Ennui?
Are You Experiencing Posting Ennui?
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People have this aspirational idea of building a vast, oppressively colossal, deeply interlinked knowledge graph to the point that it almost mirrors every discrete concept and memory in their brain. And I get the appeal of maximalism. But they’re counting on the wrong side of the ledger. Every node in your knowledge graph is a debt . Every link dou... See more
borretti.me • Unbundling Tools for Thought
The thing is, you probably have all the information you need already, you just can't bring yourself to sit down and listen to it, so you just keep chain-smoking podcasts and youtube videos, never really thinking, knowing deep down that the answers you seek are in the silence you're avoiding
what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation
Erin Glasstwitter.comWhat The New Yorker Was Reading in 1925
What The New Yorker Was Reading in 1925
Whatever Newman’s theory might be, it remains indiscernible to a reader being hustled through her incantatory anthology’s vacuum of critical pronouncement. If the short story began, as Newman posits, with men’s “fondness for recounting their amorous conquests,” that “would account for its beginning in the egotistical first person; and fraternal exultation, rather than physiognomical improbability, would explain its passage to the altruistic third person.” It might even explain why the sixteen selections include not a single one by a woman, though Newman, a librarian from Georgia, would soon publish two novels herself.
We are now seeing the result. Stephen Miller’s anti-immigrant scourge. Russell Vought’s retributive targeting of universities, law firms, and the media. Kash Patel’s eagerness to investigate Trump enemies; Pam Bondi’s eagerness to prosecute them. Kristi Noem’s cruelty. Robert Kennedy Jr.’s paranoia. JD Vance’s misogyny. Marco Rubio’s and Pete Hegseth’s brainless sycophancy.
Introduction - Model Context Protocol
modelcontextprotocol.io
not really a thing