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So when someone declares that we can reshape our understanding of excellence and achievement around strange new principles appointing human beings as the center of our social universe, it’s understandably difficult to swallow.
Todd Rose • Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment
attention-holding architecture
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
future.a16z.com • 21 Experts on the Future of Expertise - Future
Is it always (or ever) possible to reduce cognitive load for all users simultaneously? Perhaps not. Instead, designers constantly make choices about which users to privilege and which will have to do more work.
Sasha Costanza-Chock • Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (Information Policy)
Brookings Institute
Sarah Kessler • Gigged: The Gig Economy, the End of the Job and the Future of Work
A quixotic intellectual troubadour, he has prosecuted a series of discrete visions united only by a potent sense of curiosity and a provocative optimism.
John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
temporally heterogeneous than academically disciplined, historically minded scholars tend to let on, and that some kind of desire for the past motivates all our work, regardless of how sharp-edged our researches eventually become:
Carolyn Dinshaw • How Soon Is Now?: Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time
our current theories and points of reference for reckoning with electronic textuality were inadequate
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum • Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination (The MIT Press)
new generation of midwives who will go forth into the medical establishment and drive their own change.