Shreya Dalmia
@shreyadalmia
Shreya Dalmia
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
The way to change people’s minds is to become friends with them, to integrate them into your tribe, to bring them into your circle. Now, they can change their beliefs without the risk of being abandoned socially.
jamesclear.com • Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds
Emerging role in design orgs: The Super Senior Individual Contributor (Principal Designer, Design Architect)
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Our 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
Nick Susi: Magic, Online!
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“People want to connect to humanity a bit more and are pivoting away from things that feel too perfect, because they tend to feel a bit sterile and kind of impersonal.” Rasmus Wängelin, global head of brand design at Spotify, on the inspiration for Spotify Mix
"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
Even 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
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