Shreya Dalmia
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Shreya Dalmia
"Envy is wanting something that someone else has. And you may actually want that person to have it too but you also want it. Jealousy is the fear of loosing what you have to someone else. Malicious envy is not only do you want what someone else has but you don't want them to have it." Brene Brown
This quote from Tony Hsieh contains so much truth: “Happiness is really just about four things: perceived control, perceived progress, connectedness (number and depth of your relationships), and vision/meaning (being part of something bigger than yourself).”
Esther Crawfordx.comThe Redesigners
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Miles Davis // "Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself."
instagram.comEven Baudrillard himself urges us to resist this polarized radicalization. “We have to fight against charges of unreality, lack of responsibility, nihilism and despair.” Jean Baudrillard We need a reality check. We need to let go of our hubris and bring each other closer together for connection, nuanced conversation and radical intimacy that can’t
... See moreOur feeds are designed to “prod the would-be attender ever onward from one monetizable object to the next,” he writes. This has had a deadening effect on all kinds of culture, from Marvel blockbusters that optimize for attention minute to minute, to automated Spotify recommendations that push one similar song after another.
Kyle Chayka • How the Internet Turned Us Into Content Machines
The opportunity is in moving curated content feeds away from their never-ending-now orientation and towards more goal-oriented interfaces. People should be able to find whatever content they want on their terms and not be beholden to when the curator decides to publish.
sariazout.mirror.xyz • Re-Organizing the World’s Information: Why We Need More Boutique… — Mirror
“Design thinking, double diamond, agile, scrum, lean UX, design sprint. Humans seek formulas. Formulas sell books, classes, and courses, and feed multi-million contracts where consultancies come in to fix teams that are misaligned and can’t get work done. Watch out for Trademarked Processes™ that claim to solve all your company’s problems. Instead,
... See moreAI is aggregated human intelligence. So it’s better to call it collective intelligence than artificial intelligence.
Emphasizing the collectivity (something built on the commons) over the artificiality (a feat of technology) gives us an entire new way to see, perceive and relate to the technology.
-via Holly Herndon, in conversation with Ezra Klein