Sarah Wong
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Sarah Wong
Three major explanations have emerged for the decline in local civic engagement in the US in recent decades: eroding social capital, the nationalization of American life, and the decline of local newspapers. Social capital—the relationships and trust that promote civic engagement—has decayed as modern life has become more individualized and less co... See more
Solving Social Media’s ‘Local Paradox’ (SSIR)
These three character -forming institutions, families, churches, and schools have left a void that may put undue burdens on public policy.
Isabel V. Sawhill • Social Capital: Why We Need It and How We Can Create More of It
One way of enhancing interaction is by enabling multi-user shared displays, which allows people to share experiences at the same time. A good example of this is in-person gaming, where users are engaged in a game together and the device acts as a tool to improve the quality of their experience through enjoyment. Another example is interactive insta... See more
The role of technology in enhancing in-person interactions
The term ‘the commons’ has been increasingly used to refer not just to “things” or “assets” (as Silke Helfrich puts its) but more broadly to the “social practices of commoning, acting together, based on principles of sharing, stewarding and producing in common” .
Designing for Transitions – Transition Design Seminar CMU
“the future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed.” Aspects of our future vision may already exist in the form of new projects, initiatives, practices, policies, technologies/innovations or ideas about or concepts for any of these.
Designing for Transitions – Transition Design Seminar CMU
How can you imagine balancing the implementation of multiple ‘interventions’ with periods of observation and waiting? Should this process be staggered, so that transition designers are observing the results of some interventions, while implementing others? How can this process be choreographed and adjusted quickly when necessary?
Designing Systems Interventions – Transition Design Seminar CMU
“A good strategy is, in the end, a hypothesis about what will work.”
— Michael Porter
Lenny Rachitsky • Getting better at product strategy
We spent about a year building, when in retrospect, we should have spent half that time talking to customers. And if we had, we would’ve wasted a lot less time on customers who were never going to buy.
Lenny Rachitsky • A guide for finding product-market fit in B2B
Re-envisioning it means ensuring that every place is a part of a bounded neighborhood with a clear start and end and a commercial center, primary school, parks, civic associations, nonprofits, small businesses, and other physical assets and institutions that promote bonding relationships. Adjusting the tax system to favor local volunteerism and giv... See more