Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Brookings Institute
Sarah Kessler • Gigged: The Gig Economy, the End of the Job and the Future of Work
Center for Civic Media,
Ethan Zuckerman • Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
The Vox Doctrine
Media companies are profiting from a crisis they helped create. Vox/Recode dismissed the pandemic, scorned precautions, told you not to wear masks, even attacked philanthrophy!
Now they're setting traffic records.
Need citizen journalism, not corporate media.
IDEAS ARE MONEY
George Lakoff • Metaphors We Live By
Research shows that unless the gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, age, nationality, language, immigration status, and other aspects of user identity are explicitly specified, even diverse design teams tend to default to imagined users who belong to the dominant social group.36
Sasha Costanza-Chock • Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (Information Policy)
while voting is symbolically powerful, this model misses an important truth: we do not discover shared values through individually revealed preference. If public goods are to satisfy shared values, then public discussion of what's of value matters!
Sam Hart • Positive Sum Worlds: Remaking Public Goods
Purpose:
George Lakoff • Metaphors We Live By
Don’t be fancy—be effective.